Buying an inkjet printer these days is no big deal. A reliable printer can be acquired very easily through a store or online for as little as $50. Some suppliers are even giving away inkjet printers on promotions or as free incentives when buying other products. On face of it, it seems like too good an opportunity to pass by - a worthwhile investment you might say.

But, much like a traditional camera that uses film, an inkjet printer is only 'cheap' before you start using it. The cost of keeping it in ink soon mounts up, especially when you're buying OEM (original equipment manufactured) inkjet cartridges as recommended by printer manufacturer. Before you know it you'll find that you've actually spent more on ink cartridges than you did on purchase of inkjet printer itself!

If you're in this position - and let's face it, most of us are - what follows could be quite a revelation!

Five things inkjet printer manufacturers DON'T want you to know…

1. Inkjet printer manufacturers make their money selling ink cartridges NOT inkjet printers

Selling recommended OEM ink cartridges is a very lucrative business for inkjet printer manufacturers. They know that once you've purchased printer you'll be coming back to them time and time again to buy ink that they recommend in user guide and any other literature that accompanies printer. Fair enough you might say, but given that price of manufacturing an OEM ink cartridge is only a few cents why are cartridges so expensive? The answer is that ink cartridges are in fact stuffed full of manufacturer profit. It is where they make their money, and is precisely why they are happy to give away an inkjet printer for nothing.

With due consideration to complaints of typical end-users that colors on monitor do not match with printed item, there is a need for proper understanding and right color model to go around intricate behavior of digital color. Very few people understand theory of how digital color works even with much technological advances in it. A printer’s inability to go around intricacies of these new color technologies can lead to a general decline of consumers.

Ways have been made in order to fully comprehend and tap great potential of digital color as a new color technology today. We have Spittin’ Image Software to thank for an introduction of a new “low-tech” invention that lay down principles of digital color and sheds new light to digital colors. This is aptly named COLORCUBE.

The Colorcube is just recently patented in United States. It is a three-dimensional model wherein one can understand and even teach digital color theory. Through this elegant color representation, gap.