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What would you do with 50k worth of ink?

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  • #32
    patwicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    Ireland Ink


  • #33
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    I would print a life sized poster of Leinster house and stand with a smug look on my face in front of.


  • #34
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    How on earth does one INK cartridge cost 128 Euro ??
    You could buy two printers with ink for that price these days. And I presume they buy wholesale...There's probably a bigger crime in there somewhere.


  • #35
    patwicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    3,5 million pages of a4 paper wow


  • #36
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    I suspect that some Shinners were looking for cartridges - and he sent them a lorry load of the wrong type. You could say he jumped the gun on that one :D


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  • #37
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    how much did the paper cost BTW? & stamps?


  • #38
    Casillas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭Casillas


    FoxT wrote: »
    how much did the paper cost BTW? & stamps?
    For that cost I'm guessing it was papyrus hurtled through a time machine from ancient Egypt.


  • #39
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    FoxT wrote: »
    how much did the paper cost BTW? & stamps?

    3.5 million sheets is 7000 reams.

    Taking that he wasnt printing full duplex then:

    7000 reams @ approx Euro2 equates to 14000.


  • #40
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    Take a poo on it


  • #41
    Raekwon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭Raekwon


    This


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  • #42
    Dymo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Dymo


    muppetkiller wrote: »
    How on earth does one INK cartridge cost 128 Euro ??
    You could buy two printers with ink for that price these days. And I presume they buy wholesale...There's probably a bigger crime in there somewhere.

    Lazer printer colour cartridges easily cost that.


  • #43
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    muppetkiller wrote: »
    How on earth does one INK cartridge cost 128 Euro ??
    You could buy two printers with ink for that price these days. And I presume they buy wholesale...There's probably a bigger crime in there somewhere.

    Probably is not ink but toner. Dont think they ll use desktop inkjet printers over there.


  • #44
    patwicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    3.5 million sheets/500 sheets per ream = 7000 reams @ 2.5KG (assuming 80gms weight) = 17.5 tonnes of paper! Is that right?


  • #45
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Keep it until they developed ink fuelled cars...its going to happen at some stage, Anus Ó Snotface obviously has an inside line on its development and is hoarding it.


  • #46
    mailforkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    I'd probably use it to print new serials on a few million quid of Northern Bank notes.


  • #47
    patwicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    http://www.goethe.de/ins/se/prj/uar/eng/ver/coi/enindex.htm


    Quote:
    Professor Pádraig Ó Snodaigh founded the Irish book publishing company Coiscéim 30 years ago in 1980. To date Coiscéim have published over 1,000 books in the Irish language. There are novels, poetry books, history books, drama, translated works from German, French, Chinese, English, Italian, Urdu and many other language. Other book titles include folklore, Books for children, teenagers, adults and love stories. Coiscéim is based in Irelands capital city - Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin).


  • #48
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    patwicklow wrote: »
    3.5 million sheets/500 sheets per ream = 7000 reams @ 2.5KG (assuming 80gms weight) = 17.5 tonnes of paper! Is that right?

    Did he get the paper from Leinster House too?
    If not, why not?


  • #49
    patwicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    dvpower wrote: »
    Did he get the paper from Leinster House too?
    If not, why not?

    Got it from Bertie but it was tons of Brown paper left over from his time:rolleyes:


  • #50
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    dvpower wrote: »
    Did he get the paper from Leinster House too?
    If not, why not?

    7000 reams would be equivalent to 3

    45ft trucks loaded with pallets of paper


  • #51
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    patwicklow wrote: »
    Got it from Bertie but it was tons of Brown paper left over from his time:rolleyes:

    Strangely enough, they used some paper but the amount of envelopes that could be found in the Dail and used, was much greater.
    The fella doing the stationary ordering couldn't explain it.
    He said the delivery chap must be constantly giving them too many envelopes, they were dumped everywhere!

    Strange stuff! :pac:





    ;)


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  • #52
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    Even if his printer was going 24/7 for 2 years it still wouldn't amount to that cost.

    Gonna have to say it's ending up as a brown envelope somewhere.


  • #53
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    muppetkiller wrote: »
    How on earth does one INK cartridge cost 128 Euro ??
    You could buy two printers with ink for that price these days. And I presume they buy wholesale...There's probably a bigger crime in there somewhere.

    Office printer ink cartridges are much bigger than what you use in home printers. They can be the size of a laptop.

    Which is course means he printed off a lot more than most people initially thought.


  • #54
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Office printer ink cartridges are much bigger than what you use in home printers. They can be the size of a laptop.

    Which is course means he printed off a lot more than most people initially thought.

    Are you telling me each TD has industrial Size office printers ? I think not.
    Mind you in this country you're probably right.


  • #55
    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    muppetkiller wrote: »
    Are you telling me each TD has industrial Size office printers ? I think not.
    Mind you in this country you're probably right.


    No, a common office laser jet type printer can use fairly large sized toner cartridges, and they are quite expensive.

    However, to use that amount meant he was either paying over the odds, or literally had the printers running 24/7 to use up all that ink - would have been cheaper to sent the documents it to a commercial printer.


  • #56
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,291 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Gross inkompetence, allowing TDs to wolf the toner.

    They should have x-ray scanners and baggage checkers in gubberment buildings.


  • #57
    about 3 fity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭about 3 fity


    id paint the town red!!

    probably paint the neighbouring town yellow, and the next one blue

    id paint a load of windows in a housing estate black, people will wake up in the morning and then BOOM.....WTF????

    :oi'll get my coat:o


  • #58
    mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭mountain


    patwicklow wrote: »
    3.5 million sheets/500 sheets per ream = 7000 reams @ 2.5KG (assuming 80gms weight) = 17.5 tonnes of paper! Is that right?

    you got it,

    or close on a 40 foot shipping container.


  • #59
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Gross inkompetence, allowing TDs to wolf the toner.

    They should have x-ray scanners and baggage checkers in gubberment buildings.

    Very good!
    I see what you were doing there! :D


  • #60
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    Did poor auld, Mary Lou, get any ink?


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  • #61
    Sonic the Large Cock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭Sonic the Large Cock


    if I won that much free ink id dye ba boom tishhhh


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