Nah. Blood is one of the few substances that dries out even faster than printer ink.

/don't ask

I don't think so subby. I hate it enough when people use those red ink pens to write stuff so I don't even want to imagine what it will be like when people start printing stuff in completely red ink. The only people I find more annoying are those who use yellow ink. Seriously, what farking purpose does one need to use yellow ink other then graphs/charts etc.

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I print things so rarely that this isn't an issue for me. Now that I've scanned my signature I don't even have to print out W-9s my clients send me. I just fill out the form, paste my signature on it, and send it back as a PDF.

Is this an issue for anyone other than my mother-in-law who thinks she has to print every damn thing?

I'm completely convinced that The Consumerist pays Fark for the links. There's no other explanations for the trite and/or obvious links to that site.

Was the OBVIOUS tag etc.

Decades ahead of their time.

Hello, tech support? My printer seems to be malfunctioning. It must have gotten something from a toilet seat.

Bloody William: Decades ahead of their time.

Two impostors there.

You know what's cheaper than buying a new toner? Buying a new printer.

Check the prices if you don't believe me.

Make it run on blood too and it's perfect.
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The Icelander: I print things so rarely that this isn't an issue for me. Now that I've scanned my signature I don't even have to print out W-9s my clients send me. I just fill out the form, paste my signature on it, and send it back as a PDF.

Is this an issue for anyone other than my mother-in-law who thinks she has to print every damn thing?

i'd say, "i print a lot of stuff that needs to be printed" which is true, but i have a laser, so ink is just silly to me.

Rickerkioz: You know what's cheaper than buying a new toner? Buying a new printer.

Check the prices if you don't believe me.

Untrue. The ink cartridges that come with the printer aren't even close to full, so you have to purchase more frequently, costing more in the long run.

[citation needed]

isnt this how skynet grew to hate and hunt down humans

The question is, why can't we sell our own blood? It has to be "donated." There's always a high demand for blood and a low supply. A small stipend for a pint would raise supplies and thus maybe lower endpoint costs for this commodity.

MrBentor: The question is, why can't we sell our own blood? It has to be "donated." There's always a high demand for blood and a low supply. A small stipend for a pint would raise supplies and thus maybe lower endpoint costs for this commodity.

Andrew Ryan agrees.

I see that graph and come up with a different conclusion:

it would be cheaper to transfuse with vodka and red bull than actual blood.

/off to get a transfusion.
//PRBC = Packed Red Bull Cans

Yes, because it makes complete sense to slit my wrists to fill a printer cartridge.

For Christ's sake, if you can't afford printer ink, how the hell do you own a printer?

Personal photo printers are extremely uneconomical considering retail stores will develop entire memory cards for a pittance. If you need a color inkjet printer for desktop publishing or whatever reason, go with one with simple cheap cartridges and make sure they are large. Those printers with 6 different color cartridges that hold about a teaspoon of ink each are a complete ripoff.

If you don't need color but print a lot (usually for school or work), get a monochrome laser.

MrBentor: The question is, why can't we sell our own blood? It has to be "donated." There's always a high demand for blood and a low supply. A small stipend for a pint would raise supplies and thus maybe lower endpoint costs for this commodity.

I always look for the deals where they give me a gallon of oj and a box of cookies. What, you only get one glass of juice and one cookie for your transactions? Ha ha, you got ripped of, sucker!

TheRaven7: If you don't need color but print a lot (usually for school or work), get a monochrome laser.

This OMG this

Yaxe: Yes, because it makes complete sense to slit my wrists to fill a printer cartridge.

For Christ's sake, if you can't afford printer ink, how the hell do you own a printer?

At some point, Fark must have lost its sense of humor. :(

Britney Spear's Speculum: [citation needed]

yarly, I clicked the link for the source and it was just the graph. One of the comments for that site was kind enough to provide some links.

TheOmni: I don't even understand why this issue comes up. Do people compare the price per pound of cars, iPods and whole wheat bread? Or the price per foot of silly string, pearl necklaces and barbed wire? I just don't understand what the relationship is between the items in question here.



Quiet, you! If it wasn't for this supremely helpful link, I would never have learned the economic benefits of filling my veins with 3M PF-5030!

MrBentor: 'why can't we sell our own blood?'

Simple. Safety. If you can sell your blood, two things will undoubtedly happen.

One: People will game the system in order to sell more than is allowed. The CDC has established blood donation guidelines determining exactly how much any one person is allowed to donate over a given period of time. This is done to ensure donor safety (and probably to protect hospitals/donation centers from liability). If there was money involved, some people would absolutely work hard to sell more than allowed, and end up getting hurt, and probably suing anyone even remotely involved in the process.

Two: Safety of the blood supply. The CDC has set up strict (in some cases even stupid) rules about exactly who can donate blood. You need to be in good health at the time of donation, be free from certain medications and of course free of illicit drugs. You can't have traveled to certain countries, etc. HIV and other diseases aren't too tough to test for, but it might be far more difficult to test for the use of certain drugs or medications. Some people who would normally be ineligible to donate blood (and wouldn't because they couldn't profit from it) would certainly SELL their blood despite the potential risks to the recipient(s).

I agree that it would be nice to get something apart from juice, a cookie and maybe a t-shirt for donating blood, but I honestly can see how that would lead to far more problems than it's worth.

Also, a higher supply wouldn't really lower costs. You'd still need x nurses for x blood donors, and the costs of the medical supplies (needles, tubing, blood bags) wouldn't really get that much lower. The testing of the samples is already likely done in bulk by outside labs, so the cost of that probably wouldn't decrease much, either. Also you'd be surprised how much gamma radiation sterilized consumables cost. Just regular lab supplies for a non-profit organization that buys in bulk are pretty expensive (I order supplies for our research lab as part of my job). I'd hate to know the cost of lower-volume medical grade supplies. Add to that the cost of paying the 'donors' (and probably hiring an accountant, maybe a cashier at the busier clinics), and I doubt the cost of a pint would drop all that much.

/haven't donated whole blood or platelets in a long time
//should get off my ass and go do that soon

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Welcome to fark, were nothing is new, we repeat most of our topics, Drew gets as many troll fantastic headlines as possible so he can get some high traffic volume, and we are getting closer and closer to jumping that shark.

TheOmni: I don't even understand why this issue comes up. Do people compare the price per pound of cars, iPods and whole wheat bread? Or the price per foot of silly string, pearl necklaces and barbed wire? I just don't understand what the relationship is between the items in question here.

I hear those cum pretty cheap in some places.

/yeah, I went there

TheGhostofFarkPast: co-conspirator: http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4684035

Welcome to fark, were nothing is new, we repeat most of our topics, Drew gets as many troll fantastic headlines as possible so he can get some high traffic volume, and we are getting closer and closer to jumping that shark.

Closer? My friend, we've cleared the launch ramp and are rapidly losing altitude. Consumerist, Contactmusic, Starpulse, Wired, Break... remember when it was thought Fark TV was as low as Drew could sink?

Here you go guys; I'm going to sum up every single Consumerist article that has been or will be written:

"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR HURR HURRRRRRRRR."

F'in retards.

I recall reading something awhile back and sorted out the ink is around $1000.00 a gallon when you put out about $36 avg for a few ounces of fluid.

Yeah, it's fracking expensive. they must make it in gold lined drums.

That's why you can buy a printer on the cheap. They get you with the ink.

Cost me 25 bux used from my companies "We don't need it anymore" store. Had about 400,000 prints on its counter. Came with toner still to use. A new cartridge from a 3rd party costs about 35 bux give or take. Oh, and did I mention it has a Jet Direct card in it, so its just plugged into my switch.

/HP business class LaserJets FTW
//LJ III probably the most rock solid ever
/The 4000 series can take a beating tho, we abuse them at work

In other words, Gas is the most expensive substance on the planet if you must buy a $60,000 Mercedes every time you fill up the tank.

Do any of you realize you can refill liquid ink printer cartridges?

I got this from printerfillingstation.com.

Double Ink? +$9.00 (48 refills)
Includes INK, TOOLS, & REFILL INSTRUCTIONS

Yeah.

So uh... why don't they sell ink refills for a fraction of the price? There are like two ink refill stores in my town.

Boobiesontheside: why don't they sell ink refills for a fraction of the price?

Because that doesn't maximize profits.

Boobiesontheside: So uh... why don't they sell ink refills for a fraction of the price? There are like two ink refill stores in my town.

HP et al. don't want you to refill the cartridges, because the profit margin on the new ink cartridges that they sell offsets the loss that they take in selling the printer. It's a razor-and-blades kind of sales model.