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The perpetrators of the Hatton Garden jewellery heist got it all wrong. The sensible and easy money is now in printer ink.
No, seriously, it is.
I was recently asked to print 3 of my photographs for a friend. As I regularly print my work this did not pose any problem. Except that when I actually came to print the images my printer (a Canon A3 thingy) gleefully informed me that some of the printer cartridges were perilously empty.
I carried on with the printing in any case, choosing not to believe Canon, but unfortunately on this occasion they were correct.
I had to bite the bullet and go and buy some ink. As I needed it straight away this entailed a visit to my local computer shop.
The price of 21ml of black ink? £15.99. This equates to £761.43 per litre, or £3,461 per gallon.
And this must surely make printer ink the single most expensive commodity in the World.
Forget about gold, diamonds, gelignite and safety deposit boxes. Go and do PC World over instead. The rewards are much higher and the swag much easier to carry out.
No, seriously, it is.
I was recently asked to print 3 of my photographs for a friend. As I regularly print my work this did not pose any problem. Except that when I actually came to print the images my printer (a Canon A3 thingy) gleefully informed me that some of the printer cartridges were perilously empty.
I carried on with the printing in any case, choosing not to believe Canon, but unfortunately on this occasion they were correct.
I had to bite the bullet and go and buy some ink. As I needed it straight away this entailed a visit to my local computer shop.
The price of 21ml of black ink? £15.99. This equates to £761.43 per litre, or £3,461 per gallon.
And this must surely make printer ink the single most expensive commodity in the World.
Forget about gold, diamonds, gelignite and safety deposit boxes. Go and do PC World over instead. The rewards are much higher and the swag much easier to carry out.
I TOTALLY agree with you on this, Nick! The price of ink is outrageous! One trick I’ve learned over the years is not to believe it when the printer says it’s out of ink. (I feel I get a few ‘extra’ copies that way!)
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