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
above the salt
air stabilization
aircraft all-up weight
alberigoes
American golden plover
ammonium rhodanide
amoebean
amplification matrix
be in the money
bensultap
benzoxyacetanilid
books-to-bill
brilliancy
by due
Castagnaro
catch light
chibe
clip-art
cobwebbiest
comprehensive transport
conceptual models
concurrent fault detection
cottage pudding
default value
demonstration pyrometer
distinctest
electrolytic surgearrester
ermined
erogeneity
ethnic-racial
express myself
fazart
Fitzpatrick scale
fixed assets accounting
gets past
gettextcolor
girlfully
gland steam collector
Godman's
grad sample
hamza
handling knob
hard face alloy
hardly when
heater level control valve
high speed circuit
horizontal screw pump
HOTLIST
in one breath
indirect wages
inequality coefficient
instantaneous alert
jardins
jeffcoates
leun
line break signal
line drawing display
line of single curvature
lower limit of liquid state
machinery performance monitoring
maribone
meyme
mo(u)ldboard plough
namiks
nidder
np-hard
off-line batch processing retrieval system
OICC
ouseburn
paper tape channel
payware
perleches
physiological life history
pontifician
port state control
posiode
pre-alpha
progression induction seam welding
push examination
quality of service
Raytheon tube
regular integral element
retrotrapezoid
rhinomanometer
separation profile
slabberers
spheric attenuation
stiff mix
stitch-and-seam weld
Sulcus centralis insulae
supermicrocomputer
swan islands
three-men
title card
tree shadow
Tverrfjellet
universal grammars
variety test
vertex plate
walty
wijnbergen