it is designed to use up as much ink as possible!!!

I guess that makes sense. Protect your own, right? My black ink cost $30! Epson, though.

This is true about their actual printers as well, the one I had that is.

I now have a Brother printer, it is nice to choose between color or b/w. Now I have a Kodak photo printer, this has been wonderful to have as well.

they have a competition running, and you can print out activities for kids, and the pages are more or less covered with colour to waste your ink cartridges

I normally only pring on fast setting, but these PDFs won't do that!