{"id":11324,"date":"2006-12-21T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/ten-thousand-bucks-a-gallon-for-ink.html"},"modified":"2006-12-21T07:59:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T07:59:56","slug":"ten_thousand_bucks_a_gallon_for_ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/ten_thousand_bucks_a_gallon_for_ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten thousand bucks a gallon&#8230; for ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Give away the razor, make money on the razor blades&#8230;&quot;  I say, the razor guys need to convince you to ink your face\/legs, &#8217;cause the real money is in inkjet refills.<\/p>\n<p>Popular Photography&#8217;s Michael McNamara has posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/mcnamara.popphoto.com\/the_mcnamara_report\/2006\/12\/10000_per_gallo.html\">interesting observations <\/a>on the state of inkjet prices in the world market.&#160; Note: I don&#8217;t mention this to suggest that these products are overpriced.&#160; The rate of innovation in desktop printing has been terrific, and as Michael notes, these inks enable creation of prints that &quot;technically blow away minilab and online quality, plus last five to ten times longer on display.&quot;&#160; It&#8217;s simply interesting to do the math on commodities that are, drop for drop, among the most expensive any of us will likely encounter. [Via Russell Williams] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Give away the razor, make money on the razor blades&#8230;&quot; I say, the razor guys need to convince you to ink your face\/legs, &#8217;cause the real money is in inkjet refills. Popular Photography&#8217;s Michael McNamara has posted some interesting observations on the state of inkjet prices in the world market.&#160; Note: I don&#8217;t mention this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}