My House of Ink

When it comes to purchasing printer ink or toner, you want to find the kind you need, but you also want to be thrifty because as we all know, ink and toner can be expensive.  Finding the best ink or toner deals isn’t always easy in retail stores, but online retailers open up a whole new world for finding ink and toner at discounted prices. While retail stores have to remain in competition with each other, the online marketplace is much vaster, and thus because of the increased competition, prices on products are often lower. However, you do have to worry about shipping costs, but with the small size of ink and toner cartridges and low shipping costs, it’s quite efficient to purchase online.

When shopping online, you can purchase ink or toner from a large retail website, but smaller vendors in general have the best deals because they don’t have to match their prices to a store location. You can even find name brands, like Canon ink cartridges.

At one time the quill pen was the pinnacle of inking technology.  The quill would have to be dipped in ink again and again after only a few words had been written, tiring out the arm, the hand, and exhausting the mind further.  In the years to come, the fountain pen was invented, which combined the pen and the ink, but suffered from leaking and spotting on the page.  In more modern times, the ball point pen was invented, and followed the type press, or typewriter which was the first widespread mechanical inking instrument.

Modern technology advanced to the extent that now computer printers do almost all of the work and, in general, pens are seldom used except for jotting down notes.  Sales of ink cartridges and laser toner cartridges now dominate the ink market, and down the road, pens might become obsolete all together.