Masih Pake Tinta Original?

Ternyata tinta original harganya lebih mahal dari darah manusia untuk tiap mililiternya. Ga cuma darah aja, tinta original juga lebih parah mahalnya daripada antibiotik penisilin, vodka, minuman energi, air, bahkan minyak mentah.

"Blood may be thicker than water, but it appears ink is more expensive than human blood. The per-milliliter cost of an HP 45 printer cartridge is 71 cents, while blood comes out to 40 cents per ml"

(quoted from Gizmodo.com)

Ngitungnya gimana sih?

"He calculates that a $30 HP #45 black ink cartridge gives you 42ml, pricing out to $0.71/ml. Meanwhile, blood apparently costs $200 for 500ml from the Red Cross, pricing out to $0.40/ml."

"Ink for home printers is now seven times more expensive than vintage champagne.

Ink in a typical replacement cartridge costs about £1.70 per millilitre, compared with 1985 Dom Perignon at 23p per millilitre."

(quoted from thisislondon.co.uk)

Kalo tangki bensin mobil kamu diisi sama tinta HP atau Lexmark, harganya kira-kira USD 100,000.- yang kalo ditranslate ke rupiah kira-kira Rp. 935 jutaan (lagian iseng amat isi tangki bensin pake tinta printer). 

"If you were to fill up the tank of your car with Hewlett-Packard or Lexmark ink, it would cost $100,000," said Gerald Chamales, chairman of Rhinotek Computer Products, a Carson (Los Angeles County) manufacturer of ink and toner cartridges that are compatible with name-brand printers. "If you filled an Olympic-size swimming pool with ink from HP or Lexmark inkjet cartridges, it would cost $5.9 billion with a B." (from sfgate.com)

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USED PRINTER CARTRIDGES POLLUTE THE ENVIRONMENT (!!)

from www.earthtonesolutions.com

non-biodegradable parts of inkjet cartridges will pollute the environment for at least 100 million years.

Facts:

* In 2005, over 700 million new printer cartridges were sold ONLY in the USA. (650 million inkjet cartridges and 70 million toner cartridges)

* In 2005, over 60 million new printer cartridges were sold in Canada. (59 million inkjet cartridges and 7 million toner cartridges)

* In 2005, over 500 million new printer cartridges were sold in Europe. (525 million inkjet cartridges and 49 million toner cartridges)

* In 2005, over 100 million recycled printer cartridges were sold worldwide. (62 million inkjet cartridges and 42 million toner cartridges)

* 2 1/2 ounces of oil are used for each new inkjet cartridge.

* 3 1/2 quarts of oil are used for each new toner cartridge.

* Every toner printer cartridge on average, is made up of about 2 1/2 pounds of plastic, along with rubber, aluminum, and steel.

* About 3 1/2 quarts of petroleum are required to power the manufacturing process that converts oil and natural gas to plastic , to produce a single printer cartridge.

* Every printer cartridge contains petroleum as "embedded energy". It take the energy equivalent of about 1/2 gallon of oil to produce a 2 1/2 pound laser cartridge.

* Each new toner cartridge uses about 3 quarts of oil to produce, and adds 2 1/2 pounds of plastic to the environment.

* By some estimates, about eight inkjet and toner cartridges are thrown in the trash in the United States every second.

* Printer cartridge recycling industry analysts estimate that used inkjet and toner cartridges can be recycled and reused between 4 and 7 times.

* According to industry statistics, over 86% of inkjet cartridges consumed in the United States are not recycled, they're thrown in the trash. Toner cartridge recycling is a very large industry in the USA. It employs thousands of people yet over 1/2 of the used toner cartridges are still discarded every year. That translates to 350 million printer cartridges that end up in landfills or incinerators or about 875 million pounds of e-waste. Stacked end to end, these discarded printer cartridges would cover a distance of about 24,000 miles; enough distance to circle the earth.

* For every toner printer cartridge we recycle, we save at least 1/2 gallon of oil. With America consuming about 700 million gallons of oil per day, recycling printer cartridges is helping to save our natural resources, and curb additional greenhouse emissions.

* It is estimated that in the next seven years, if we recycle every inkjet and toner cartridge, a bridge can be built from the Earth to the Moon; that's a distance of 223,000 miles.

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