This weekend I am printing our wedding invitations. Janet designed an amazing suite for the invitation that I'll be printing at home.
Needless to say, I am becoming very familiar with paper and printers this weekend.
So, might I just say - the pricing structure for inkjet cartridges is a little out of whack. It would actually be cheaper for us to purchase a new inkjet printer instead of a replacement cartridge. However, since I have currently used 4 color cartridges I don't think this is the best idea - after all, that would mean I would have 4 printers lying around the house. We try to be environmentally friendly with our purchase practices. (In fact the invitations will be printed on recycled paper and sent in envelopes made from recycled paper). However, it seems the big box mentality wishes to punish us for the ecological choice by pricing the replacement cartridge for a printer to be more expensive that a replacement printer (which by the way comes with two of the aforementioned ink cartridges). Our materialistic society has created this unfortunate set of circumstances.
How do we change this phenonemon? Can we?
2 comments:
have you thought of refilling the cartridges instead of buying new ones? Walgreens and Walmart refill up here. Good luck!
Actually, I did think about this - however, the cartridges for our printer are not refillable. :( Anyway, all of the invitations are printed and were cut to size at Kinkos yesterday.
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