Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy InkJets

Have you ever been in a tech meeting and the subject of printers has come up? There is always one DSL Teacher (Digital as a Second Language) who will bring up the fiscal advantages of InkJet printers. They will argue how inexpensive they are, how much color livens up a document, and since they are so cheap every teacher should have one on their desktop.

This School Geek lacks an add-on DSL certificate to educate a Teacher who is not a native Digital speaker in the dangers of addiction to the InkJet printers. Tens of thousands of teachers struggle with their addiction to InkJets, but intervention by laser printers have helped many recover from their addition and go on to print thousands of pages at a quarter of the price per page. The InkJet seduction starts out innocently enough, just a color chart, then a color picture, soon a teacher find themselves recycling cans and bottles to afford another ink cartage.

The InkJet printer is like an entry-level drug, once a dealer gets you hooked it is hard to break the cycle of paying thirty dollars or more for a few drops of ink. Summer at cockeyed.com compiled a list of the cost per gallon of some common items, and after looking at her list I am sure thankful my car doesn’t run on InkJet Cartridges.

Gas this week at Costco $3.05
Evian Bottled Water $6.40
Hershey’s chocolate syrup $13.23
Jamba Juice $21.82
Fresh Brewed Starbucks Coffee $32.00
Penicillin $301.49
Liquid Paper $198.00
Blood from Red Cross $1,514.79
InkJet Cartridge $2,701.52

So the next time you are in a Tech meeting remember, Just Say No to InkJets!