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Rising Ink Prices Reduces Home Printing and Office Printing has Shot Up

Jun 1, 2007 Ink Cartridges, News

How do people satisfy their hunger of printing personal documents if they can’t afford ink cartridges or if they do not wish to spend on it? Very simple, use office printers. The era of sneaking pen and other stationery has transformed into ink sneaking in the offices today. In my previous post, I talked about the reduced consumption of printing at homes as a resultant of steep ink prices; here’s a workaround scripted, acted and directed by home printer users themselves.

60% of office goers who own a printer at home print personal documents at offices with 70% of them claiming to print personal documents after office hours. More than half of them print at offices citing the prices while the rest have blamed the printing speed.

What are ink sneaks printing? The survey reports that maps and directions (60%) and online research or web site information (49%) are the two types of personal printing documents most often inked at work. Other personal printing done on the job include:
— Personal office correspondence (42%)
— Travel itineraries (42%)
— Articles from online news sources (35%)
— Photos (20%); Recipes (18%), Online shopping receipts (17%)

It is pathetic that co-workers who witness the horrendous crime of printing personal documents at work don’t bother to inform the people in charge.

The concluding part to this sequel is interesting and is based on individuals rather a sample.

via Yahoo Biz