{"id":191,"date":"2004-03-28T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2004-03-28T17:48:48","modified_gmt":"2004-03-28T21:48:48","slug":"the-cmyk-inkjet-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/28\/the-cmyk-inkjet-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"the CMYK inkjet scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an Epson C80 inkjet printer. I bought it because it takes separate cyan, magenta, yellow and black cartridges. That way&nbsp;&mdash; I thought&nbsp;&mdash; if one of the colours went out, I would only have to change the colour in question.<\/p>\n<p>I installed my fourth set of colour cartridges today. Every time I have replaced them, <strong>all<\/strong> the colours have run out at once. Don&#8217;t you find that strange? Am I the perfectly average printer user who uses exactly the colour balance that Epson came up with in the lab to ensure identical cartridge life? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me that the printer was set to ask for all the colour cartridges to be replaced when one of them was empty. A couple of them did seem quite heavy, as if there was still some ink in them. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>But since the cartridges died printing out my Canadian Business Number registration, I can expense future consumables against my tax&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an Epson C80 inkjet printer. I bought it because it takes separate cyan, magenta, yellow and black cartridges. That way&nbsp;&mdash; I thought&nbsp;&mdash; if one of the colours went out, I would only have to change the colour in question. I installed my fourth set of colour cartridges today. Every time I have replaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[922,1610],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sheesh","tag-printer","tag-scam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}