Printer ink I mean.
Except, you need context and so actually, printer ink isn’t that expensive.
But let’s pretend that it is, because then this cartoon makes so much more sense.

Of course, these days, you’d be looking at the ridiculous price of pixel light if you were moaning about a blank screen. And while it doesn’t cost much to light a single pixel, apparently, you need bloody loads of the things for them to work properly.