Open Thread: What's Your Solution to the High Cost of Printer Ink?

A study commissioned by Kodak found that people use different tactics to deal with the high cost of printer ink. Some print in black and white or in draft mode, some view information on the screen instead of printing, and some print at other places like friends’ houses or their workplaces.

I avoid the inkjet ink premium by using my inexpensive monochrome laser printer (a Lexmark E240n) for printing text documents at a cost of about two pennies a page. I don’t print photographs except at Christmastime, and for that, I use Costco’s cheap printing service.

I own three Hewlett-Packard color inkjets, but as a matter of principle and frugality, I rarely use them. Message to HP: don’t think I didn’t notice when you decreased the standard inkjet cartridge size by over 50% between generations of printers. Because of that, I went out of my way to buy a Lexmark laser instead of Hewlett-Packard, though I’m sure Lexmark marks up inkjet cartridges in the same outrageous way.

What’s your solution to the high cost of printer ink? And are you satisfied with your current printer? Share in the comments.

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