The lies of the printer consumables industry

The manufacturers of printer consumables namely ink or toner have been lying to their customers for quite some time, similarly to that of vehicle manufacturers claiming their alleged fuel economy, which is totally different from real world conditions, where nothing has been done about this for decades.

Pretty much all manufactuers falesly claim that their product will print xxxx amount of pages, where this 'false advertising' has not been addressed en masse in the courts in order for the manufaturers to correctly state how many pages can realistically be printed out.

Somewhere in the fine print, people may spot that this quoted number is in accordance with a so called ISO standard, where this no doubt passifies the unsuspecting victim of fraud.

According to the ISO standard the yield is calculated at 5% print on a page.

How does this 5% look like?

A4 page at 5% print

It, the page yield, gets even worse when a colour picture or or graphics are added to a page.

Will anything be done about this?

Judging from what has been done in the past, most likely not as this may be seen as a first world problem.

But, but it's corporate fraud!