时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语商业新闻


英语课

 装上充足墨水,一台打印机足够使用两年


Are you fed up with paying extortionate sums of money for ink cartridges 1 that run out soon after you buy them? Help may be at hand. The Japanese printer company Epson has just released a new line of printers that have enough ink to last the average person two years. Its new EcoTank printers will be able to print up to 6,500 pages in colour and 4,000 pages in black before the ink needs filling up. Epson said the typical family prints 200 pages a month. The company says the days of using small cartridges with a limited life span are over. With the new printer, users simply pour new ink into the tank. A spokesman said consumers would save around 65 per cent on printing costs with its new printers.


 
Profits from ink cartridges are falling as more people are choosing to print less and share more on social media. There has also long been discontent with printer makers 3 over their marketing 4 of ink cartridges. The business model has traditionally relied on the concept of "planned obsolescence 5". Companies intentionally 6 put as little ink as possible into the cartridge 2 so it runs out quickly, making consumers buy more. Some manufacturers use smart chips in cartridges to prevent the user from printing out more than a set number of pages, even though the cartridge may still be half full of ink. Britain's Daily Mail newspaper said companies sell cartridge ink for the equivalent of over $4,700 a litre.
 

1 cartridges
子弹( cartridge的名词复数 ); (打印机的)墨盒; 录音带盒; (唱机的)唱头
  • computer consumables such as disks and printer cartridges 如磁盘、打印机墨盒之类的电脑耗材
  • My new video game player came with three game cartridges included. 我的新电子游戏机附有三盘游戏带。
2 cartridge
n.弹壳,弹药筒;(装磁带等的)盒子
  • Unfortunately the 2G cartridge design is very difficult to set accurately.不幸地2G弹药筒设计非常难正确地设定。
  • This rifle only holds one cartridge.这支来复枪只能装一发子弹。
3 makers
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 marketing
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
5 obsolescence
n.过时,陈旧,废弃
  • For some small unproductive mills,the reality is not merger but obsolescence and bankruptcy.对一些效率低下的小厂而言,现实不是合并,而是可能被淘汰和破产。
  • Finally,the cost approach can provide a basis for allocating penalties,specifically economic obsolescence.最后,成本法可作为一个分配因陈旧特别是因经济
6 intentionally
ad.故意地,有意地
  • I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
  • The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所,因此没有资格再获得提供住房。
学英语单词
-enchyma
antenna tuning house
anti - reflection coating
antitheses
ARMELLINI
arylalkylamine
automatic computing machine
automatic scan
bicyclohexyl
big figure
biokerosene
CETP
chienes (kiens)
cimaterol
Coliauco
colpo-ureterocystotomy
compaginating
contra-remonstrant
cruziana
culicoides (trithecoides) subpalpifer
daily variation coefficient
dawn on someone
destutt
displacement-type liquid meter
Doronicum turkestanicum
drill jig for air cylinder
ecdysial suture
end face run out
endocrinopathic
Eugentiogenin
exenterated
explosion test ground
family bramidaes
fanconi-albertini-zellweger(syndrome)
floating plunger positioner
fording
glycerophosphokinase
governing plan
head spring
heal the world
heat the slide over an alcohol hurner
Hellespontian
high-frequency amplifier
holding braking force
hyperpragic
jedim
july-sept.
karst hydrologic system
key to floppy
khalifat, khalifate
King James Version
kolmanis
Lithocarpus trachycarpus
mansours
market-size
Marshall Hall's method
Maydl's hernia
micro-scanner
monitoring authority
mutilate
mycotic stomatitis
myelophthisical
narcissus papyraceuss
nsse
osteomiosis
otus lettia glabripes
parabolic grade
phlyctocythere huangshihguni
plastic plod
posteriolateral
pre-service teacher program
precise determination
pseud(o)acousis
rhizonic acid
Salmonella florida
sarava
Saussurea stenolepis
selfadjustable
semi-rural environment
Senonian Stage
service power
silver sand
solene
splenic panhematopenia
States' Rights Party
stirer
straw line
strecker degradation
swim like a brick
sympathizing
tomoda
tractortruck
triple valve branch pipe
two-way symmetric accelerator
underskinpass
Uva, L.
verbaling
Verkhneyarkeyevo
wealds
win-win,win
zabiha