But you've used up all my ink...

Can anyone out there tell me why receipts and order confirmation forms printed from the Internet are more than one page long and always in a gazillion colors? Is there some kickback scheme between the receipt designers and the ink cartridge cartels? Hmmmm. I just want a receipt that is in black ink, less than one page long, no logos, no cartoons, no hyper-graphics, just "here's what you bought, how much it cost, when it will ship, the cost of shipping, the order number and an 800 number to call to track or check on an order." I don't think that's asking too much. But for whatever cosmic crashing reason, all the receipts and order confirmations I print out could serve as TV test patterns for "best display of the most colors and nuances of colors used on a single page"! And third in line in the ink splurging department is Mapquest. It likes to print a teeny, tiny map in multiple colors of streets and highways and public parks and rivers and other such not-interested-thank-you items on a full-sized piece of paper in addition to the only thing you really want which are verbal directions from your place to the place you want to go. And just try stopping your printer mid-map. The printer pretends it "hears" you, and then it continues to print, print, print until it gets to the next to the last line on the page and then, "bingo" it stops. Thank you ever so... If Alfred Hitchcock were alive, he'd be writing all kinds of murder mysteries involving computers driving people crazy enough to strangle the life out of the local Staples sales clerk to whom you pay hundreds of dollars weekly for ink cartridges just so you can have colorful receipts and order confirmations in your "pending" file. But, alas, he has already left this world and he wisely did so before the age of computers took over and forced us to work two jobs (or hold up the local grocery store) just to pay for the new software, the latest flat screen, the megalolly memory card or those pesky ink cartridges... Maybe we can start a grass-roots protest to force the Amazon.coms of the world to return to the black and white era...where Mr. Hitchcock would feel very much at home.