My Fuji Xerox printer has been on the fritz over the last couple of weeks. I needed to print a letter so I went to the Office Works in the local town to print it. I saved the letter onto a memory stick to make it easy.

OfficeWorks wanted to charge me $5.50 to download the letter from the memory stick to one of their PC's! And then charge me for the printing on top of that! What a total rip off!

Instead I went to an internet cafe a couple of blocks away and got the two page letter printed for fifty cents...

Back to the printer - this is another rip off. I have had the Xerox laser printer for a couple of years. It cost originally about $600 which was a pretty competitive price at the time. So now it appears that the ink cartridges need to be replaced. And boy are they expensive! About $170 per cartridge. And there are four cartridges...

The moral of the story seems to be that it is substantially cheaper to buy a new printer when the first cartridge gives up the ghost. This is why we have landfill overflowing with e-pollution in this country....