How Aftermarket Inkjet Ink Holds Up After a Year

An anonymous reader writes "About a year ago I found a link on here for a test of inkjet printer inks. The article compared original manufacturer inks against much cheaper third party stuff and the results were surprisingly in favour of third party products. They've now published the final part of this study, examining the prints produced a year ago. This time the printer manufacturers have come out far better, with some third party prints having disappeared completely! Cartridge World ink still seems worth a try though, if you don't want to pay manufacturers' inflated prices."

If only...

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

If only they could invent some sort of electronic device that acts like a hundred small scissors and cuts up your documents into little strips, making it really difficult to figure out the contents of the original document.... I'd call it The Scissorator.

Better yet, maybe, would be some sort of fantastical sci-fi method of applying an energy to the document in such a way that the very atoms of the paper disassociate from eachother, and combine with oxygen in the atmosphere to form carbon dioxide and liquid water. Of course, we'd probably need tiny nanomachines to do this atom-by-atom. It's still hundreds of years off, I'm sure...

Re:Ink costs twice as much as blood

[NotQuiteReal]

Blood only comes in pretty much one shade, and it fades horribly.

Correction...

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

I have just realized that my fantastical idea would be less fantastical if the by-products were carbon dioxide and water vapor, not liquid water.

Re:If only...

[zippthorne]

The "Scissorator"? That sounds like some kind of villain from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode.

Re:That may be a feature for some

[mrsteveman1]

Yea, thats a problem. Maybe some day someone can implement a way to preserve paper documents, perhaps implement a scanning element of some kind

We can call it "The Scanner"

Re:Inkjet shminkjet...

[Nibbler999]

Do you really expect us to take laser printer advice from someone who is apparently still using a typewriter?

The obvious next step

[Anonymous Coward]

Encrypt the ink!

Re:So?

[Jeff DeMaagd]

Generally the toner cartridges are about $100 ( 50 UKP here for HP ) and the printer won't function if one of the four CMYK carts runs-dry.

Toner only works when it's dry.

Re:Ink costs twice as much as blood

[freeweed]

Not horribly enough for Hans.