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Are you fed up with paying extortionate sums of money for ink cartridges that out soon after you them? Help may be at hand. The Japanese printer company Epson has just a new line of printers that have enough ink to the average person two years. Its new EcoTank printers will be able to up to 6,500 pages in colour and 4,000 pages in black before the ink filling up. Epson said the typical family prints 200 pages a month. The company the days of using small cartridges with a limited life span over. With the new printer, users simply new ink into the tank. A spokesman said consumers would around 65 per cent on printing costs with its new printers.

Profits from ink cartridges are as more people are to print less and more on social media. There has also long discontent with printer makers over their marketing of ink cartridges. The business model has traditionally on the concept of "planned obsolescence". Companies intentionally as little ink as possible into the cartridge so it out quickly, making consumers buy more. Some manufacturers smart chips in cartridges to prevent the user from printing out more than a set number of pages, even though the cartridge may still half full of ink. Britain's Daily Mail newspaper said companies cartridge ink for the equivalent of over $4,700 a litre.