lite-scribe question.

[Richard England]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 12:28 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>   
>>> Because you'd be pissed off at spending $50 for a mere 10 mls of liquid
>>> inside a quite large plastic box that's mostly empty.  Wondering, why in
>>> hell's name, can't they use a larger cartridge and really fill it with
>>> lots of ink.
>>>
>>> Of course *we* know why - maximising profits.  They could, quite easily,
>>> make bigger cartridges that hold more ink, and not charge as much.
>>>       
>> So refill them. It isn't very hard and for HP cartridges its cut my ink
>> costs dramatically.
>>     
>
> Alan, I worked in the Chemical Industry as a Field Representative, doing
> lots of technical stuff like titrations, electrical work, A to D
> conversions to control peristaltic computerized pumps, lotsa techie
> hands-on stuff for 26 years and taught others as well. 
>
> I tried filling a cartridge once. Paid good money for a kit with all
> kinds little widgets included to fill the cartridge with ink. What a
> friggin' mess! Maybe the instructions needed to be dumbed down a bit,
> but I got more ink on me than I got into the cartridge. <chuckles> I use
> the HP 92 cartridge for black and it just seems to be lighter in weight
> each time I get one, and fewer pages are printed per cartridge. If the
> thieving bastards had to put the fluid oz of product on the label, at
> least I'd know when they decide to reduce the amount of the ink in the
> cartridge and then I could bitch about it. I think I'll just call my
> Congressman and start a "movement", like Arlo Guthrie did! <grins> Ric
>   
>
>  
Set this up on a web page and let me know where I can sign your petition and Call MY congressmen.  I think a movement on this is long past due.

So who's in charge of this, FDA, probably not, FTC, don't know. Consumer Protection?.  Maybe that is the problem, no regulatory jurisdiction....

~~R