Calbee to switch its brightly coloured packaging to black and white because war has disrupted supply of certain raw materials used in ink

  • fullsquare@awful.systems
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    5 days ago

    cap, that’s a marketing move. black ink still needs solvent and amount of it saved by using one pass instead of 3 is tiny, transport will take more

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      5 days ago

      The pigments are all petroleum based as well. Which I’m guessing there’s no shortage of yet, the prices are just being increased in real time in response to the petroleum economy. You can get rid of the colors and still sell. You can’t sell if you can’t distribute, so getting rid of transport isn’t an option.