Digital BW, The Print

>From an over-the-air piece on "NEXT@CNN" today... (it's a CNN show):

The Rochester Institute of Technology's National Center for 
Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery has begun releasing data on inkjet 
usage.

Salient points from their testing and report:

1)   Much of the third party inks on the market meet or exceed the 
quality of OEM inks..

2)   there are 80 million inkjets in the US alone, with the market 
growing rapidly

3)   Approximately 600 million cartridges per year are currently 
disposed of in the US.... (wonder what the volume those cartridges take 
up in landfills is?) Of course, this will rise as the market expands..

4)   OEM manufacturers currently hold 90% or more of the inkjet 
consumable market.

5)   Consumers have actually begun to buy new printers in place of 
buying cartridges..

For anyone interested, I'm going to try and get PDF or hard copy 
versions of the applicable research and report(s).

-- 

 

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
 
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"

 

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