It never ceases to amaze me how much printer ink we use in this household!  It seems that I have to put in at least one new cartridge every two weeks.  Considering how much time I spend away from home, I think that is a lot of ink!  The cost of ink is quite high when you compare it to the cost of a new printer.  I’m sure that the printer companies are also in the ink business and that they price their printers really low just to reel in the consumer; the real profit is in the ink that the consumer has to buy to keep that printer going!  I feel that is backed up by the fact that most new printers come with at least one cartridge of black, and one cartridge of color ink to get you started, and when you do some price comparisons you see that the price of the printer is not much more than the price of just buying the ink cartridges separately!