Little Something about Inkjet Printers
Consumers have been complaining of soaring ink prices and the returns they fetch. Inks are expensive and it hurts when it’s wasted. Well, wastage not in terms of printing unwanted material but the hidden wastes that no printer manufacturers project.
Here’s a fact about inkjet printers that all consumers should know. During the lifecycle of printing, it seems that all the ink contained in the cartridge is not deposited on paper but elsewhere. The video embedded below shows that there’s a significant amount of ink that is deposited into a waste ink container while it performs head cleaning; a criminal waste really.
There is nothing much one can do about this wasted ink as all inkjet printers are guilty of wasting ink in a similar manner. I hope that in the future, the ink squirted for keeping the nozzle clean could be reused.
About the author:
Abhinav has been blogging about printing and related technologies on CreativeCloud for several years. He is also a project manager for a large technology company.
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