Am I alone in screaming “I’ve only just replaced them!” at my printer almost every morning
The drive towards the sale of consumables has turned previously innocent printing machinery into hard-nosed salesman, forever urging the unsuspecting user into more frequent and quite possibly needless purchases. It is said that printer manufacturers make more money from selling ink cartridges and they do from selling printers! Perhaps they’ve also been able to lay off a few salesmen (the printers seem to be doing a good enough job on their own).
Other theories suggest that printers have an inbuilt “anxiety sensor”, which rather cleverly recognises the urgency factor of the document you’re trying to print and (you’ve guessed it) the higher the urgency factor of the document the more likely the printer is to fail, get jammed or demand attention in someway or other.
“I heard a company had named their printer Bob Marley because it was always Jammin’”
I genuinely remember placing an urgent call to my IT department one morning, and using some unsavoury language along the lines of “could you get someone up here quickly before I throw this (*^(^^(% printer out of the *%&$^$$ window! The printer in question had insisted that the cover was
open when, the cover was most definitely closed (I’d made absolutely sure of that).
The outcome is that buying the printer is no longer straightforward transaction, you need to weigh up the purchase price together with the ongoing cost of ink. Software is not dissimilar, initial setup costs need to be weighed against ongoing service and maintenance charges and the dreaded consideration of additional software licences!
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