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The graph above displays the cost per milliliter of a number of popular liquid substances. You'll note that petroleum oil is the cheapest item on the list. But head and shoulders above the rest is inkjet printer ink. The graph doesn't really offer enough points of comparison to know if inkjet ink is the costliest liquid on Earth, but it's hard to imagine any other liquid that might surpass that. (graph via Gizmodo)
With that in mind, I'm not so sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing: a company called Memjet has developed a new inkjet printing technology that dramatically speeds up the page-per-minute speed of printers by doing away with the traditional print head mechanism and instead using one that runs the entire length of the paper feed, print each line of a document at once rather than waiting for the head to move from side to side. (Be sure to watch the video of this technology in action)
I'm sure HP, Epson, and all the other printer makers will be doing some fast reverse-engineering when this hits the market, because it will blow away their current products. I'm just afraid of how much they're going to charge for replacement ink cartridges.
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