Using your car analogy, it’s like getting your petrol in a plastic case everytime you need to fill up, and then throwing the plastic casing away every single time. Instead (to further continue the analogy) it’s like buying a car that has enough petrol in it to last 40,000 miles. It’s the miles you pay for, not the car.

I work in education – where ecological concerns are high on the agenda – and the EC01 may not be the answer to everybody’s needs, but it is something new, innovative and the eco arguments do stand up. The cost of 8000 pages also stands up to closer scrutiny – if you pay for a 50 euro printer upfront, it seems a bargain – but expect to pay several hundred euros to reach that 8000 mark, significantly higher (almost double in some cases) than the one off payment for the EC01. It’s just getting over that initial cost and thinking more of the total cost of ownership which is the hard bit.

So cost-wise and eco-wise it’s not that bad an option……

Great–brought to you by the same guys who want to you recycle your car when you run out of gas.

Did they include the carbon cost of shipping an entire printer back to epson?

Morans. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moran)