Gorman takes his revenge on the expensive printer
Dave Gorman said in his stand-up TV show Modern life is goodish that being gifted an Epson Stylus Photo R800 was like “being given a puppy that only eats gold”.
The British comedian told a member of his audience he could have the device for free, but then destroyed it with a sledgehammer after the man turned down the offer because of the price of the ink cartridges. You can view the clip here.
Gorman explained his bemusement that the printer needed both a photo black and matte black cartridge, as well as cartridges for red, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta and gloss optimiser, and that it would cost £130 ($197/€176) to fill the machine.
“I am living in a world where it would cost me three times as much to fill my printer as my car,” the comedian complained. He also said that since the Epson ink is nearly nine times as expensive as vintage champagne, we should be “launching ships with printer ink to really show off”.
He went on to compare the fact that when one cartridge is low the others cannot be used to ordering a black coffee in a café and being told that they are out of milk.