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From: "Kirk Ransom" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT - LASER PRINTER
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 05:50:26 -0600
In-Reply-To: <GLENIOOCEMOBMIDGIDNKEEDOCKAA.kdransom@earthlink.net>


Richard Brogger asked:
> I have been following and enjoying the advice in this thread, even
> though I don't intend to buy a printer. One item I have not seen
> mentioned in cost per page. When I have shopped for a new printer, I
> have been amazed at how expensive replacement cartridges can be on a
> per page basis. Based on 5% coverage on letter size sheets, I have
> seen some cartridges that, per page, cost over four times what other
> brands cost.
>
> If the average cost per page is 16.2 cents for one printer verses 3.7
> cents for another, I would like to know that.

In general HP black and white laser printers are less then three cents a
page and color laser printers are less then ten cents a page (5% coverage).
Ink jets are perhaps three to eight times that. Search google for '
printers "cost per page" ' I change the cartridge in my HP Laserjet 4000
only a third as often as I did in my Laserjet 4, so while the cartridge cost
more to total cost per page is less.

Kirk

For HP printes look here
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl02416.html
In general black and white laser printers are less then three cents a page
and color laser printers are less then ten cents a page.

Other sources for costs per page - laser printers
http://www.compudirect.net/oki/okidata_cost_per_print_comparisons.htm

Cannon Photo printers
http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/20020307/canon-08.html

other
http://www.teamits.com/connection/?/connection/main/printers.html


PC Mag test of ink jet printers 2001
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,68862,00.asp



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