Foreign Perspectives

With the demographics of most of the western world lurching towards an older population there’s a rapidly rising interesting in means of fighting off the signs of ageing just about everywhere.

Predictably this includes assorted cosmetic preparations notably in the line of eye cream which, in most cases, is basically just filling in the cracks rather than doing something about them. Less obvious is an interest in continuing education which, on the whole, tends to attract older than average people.

Oddly it can also lead to an increase in availability of things like gyms which can have a surprisingly elderly clientele at times.

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With the advent of dedicated photo printers you’d think that full color printing was finally with us. But, of course, it isn’t really.

The problem is a combination of the cost of the inks and of maintaining the various print elements within the printer. Add those two together and you’ve a whole lot of cost and effort involved to produce the quality of prints that you can get quite easily from online printers these days.

Speed isn’t really an issue as delivery is pretty fast these days so unless you really need the prints in your hand today you probably don’t really need that fancy photo printer.

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Printers have been around for a long time now and the technologies that are used by the current models have also been out quite a number of years so you’d think by now that there’d have been some kind of standardisation for printer cartridges, wouldn’t you?

Even the supermarkets don’t have enough shelf space to hold all the different cartridges these days and when you move to something even a little bit out of the ordinary like the xerox phaser 8560 you’re asking for trouble in trying to track down the supplies for it. We’ve even found that the computer shop which sold us our latest printer last Christmas doesn’t stock the cartridges for it which is a pain as we don’t use it an awful lot so don’t want hit with the postage charges for ordering just a single cartridge online.

Maybe one day they’ll standardise…

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