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Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's wild!

I had my inkjet from around 2011 to 2015. I think it was a C310 but I can't find any proof of that. I only know it took the 30B/C cartridges.

They were $25-30 for a bundle on a retailer's shelf while everything else was closer to $50-70 for a bundle on a retailer's shelf. There was a 20% yield difference between the two, but that's no 20% markup! I vaguely recall a 30B double pack that was only $15 total, and that's what I used to buy once or twice a year. None of that hidden "Cyan mixed in the black to make it blacker" crap that HP did either.

How ironic that Kodak rigged the game to make ink expensive, and then others beat them at it.