Printer for Half the Price of a Cartridge?

I ran out of ink for my printer yesterday and went to purchase new ink cartridges. I went to the store but just couldn’t bring myself to make the purchase. I got so pissed off because they wanted more money for the ink cartridges than what I paid originally for the printer. Now, I was told that the original cartridges are only half full and the ones I’d be getting are double the size. Okay, fair enough. But that still make my printer worth only half of what an ink cartridge cost. I don’t know about you, but I for one thing something is very wrong here…