how can you, americans be so naive? We buy here in romania 250 ml of no-name made-in china good quality ink for 15$. CMYK = 60$. That's for an year of heavy printing. Caridges work for 30-40 refils. Before buying a printer we asssure ourselfs we can reset caridge chips. Paper is romanian, cheap. We are too poor to live like you. Internet come here in 2 flavours. A very fast country-level-limited network and a not-so-fast as-you-know internet. This permit me to acheive 12-20 Mbits with romanian users network, 10 times faster (or cheaper). We don't buy software or media or anything. It would be prohibitive for us. We pirate: torrents, edonkey2000, DC. We don't buy brand hardware like Dell & Co. They are too expensive. Be buy no brand china-made for half-price. We however buy your used hardware to transform them in powerfull clusters. Genuine thing is too expensive. If you know how to buy a copy cold be as reliable as original.
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