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Are you with paying lots of money for ink cartridges that finish after you buy them? Help may be here. The printer company Epson has just released some new printers with ink to last the person two years. Its new EcoTank printers can print 6,500 in colour and 4,000 pages in black. Epson said a usually prints 200 pages a . The days of using cartridges with a life span are over. With the new printer, users pour ink into the tank. People will save around 65 per cent on costs with the new printers.

Profits from ink are falling. People are printing and sharing more on social media. People have been with printer makers over the of ink cartridges. The business model has relied on the of "planned obsolescence". Companies put as ink as possible into the cartridge so it runs out , making consumers buy more. Some cartridges have to prevent the user from printing more than a number of pages, even though the cartridge may still be half full. A newspaper said printer ink costs the of over $4,700 a litre.

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