{"id":309,"date":"2003-07-05T15:39:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-05T19:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/05\/printer-flout\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T19:32:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T23:32:48","slug":"printer-flout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/05\/printer-flout\/","title":{"rendered":"Printer flout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a196\"><\/a>  Need a reason to get those printer ink cartridges refilled?  Read this and weep into your champagne glass: <em>Ink used in home printers costs seven times more than a vintage champagne, according to a study by a British consumers association.  (&#8230;)  While a typical colour ink cartridge costs about $3.90 per millilitre, a bottle of 1985 Dom Perignon works out to about 51 cents a millilitre.<\/em>  That, <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/vancouver\/vancouversun\/story.asp?id=56BD0872-28A3-4866-BB65-5B9694DC490F\">as reported in today&#8217;s <em>Vancouver Sun<\/em>.<\/a>  Is this a corporate variant of &#8220;let them eat cake&#8221;?  The article, based on a study in Which? magazine (London), adds that printers also will often tell you that the cartridge is empty when it in fact isn&#8217;t.  &#8220;Ignoring the warnings can significantly increase printer output.&#8221;    And then there are those refill places&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need a reason to get those printer ink cartridges refilled? Read this and weep into your champagne glass: Ink used in home printers costs seven times more than a vintage champagne, according to a study by a British consumers association. (&#8230;) While a typical colour ink cartridge costs about $3.90 per millilitre, a bottle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}