ink cartridges
How do printer ink cartridges affect your bottom line? Do you have more than one printer in the office? Would you like to know what you are spending on office printing? Are you considering a new printer and would like a simple way to compare the costs of different brands and models?
Due to the huge and ever changing range of printers available for sale, the cost to print on individual printers can vary greatly. Regardless if your printer is a laser printer or an inkjet the following steps outline the easy to calculate which one is the most economical to use.
Identify all of the consumable components of your printer (toners/printer ink cartridges, drums, fuser units). The easiest way to do this is to check your printer manual, or contact your printer cartridge supplier.
Identify the price you are paying per consumable, or its Recommended Retail Price.
Identify the number of pages each consumable is reported to print. The industry standard of print yield (pages the consumable will print) is 5%. This means that a standard page of text, such as a letter, will print on approximately 5% of the page (if you folded a page 20 times, one square would be 5%). Of course if you print a high proportion of graphics on your page, your print yields will be much lower.
THE CALCULATION
Divide the price of the consumable by the number of pages it yields (at 5%).
For example:
HP 2600N Colour Laser Printer
Q6000 Black Cartridge 2500 $115
Q6001 Cyan Cartridge 2000 pages $126
Q6002 Yellow Cartridge 2000 pages $126
Q6003 Magenta Cartridge 2000 pages $126
The black ink cartridge is $115/2500 = $0.046 (just under 5 cents per page)
The colour ink cartridges are $126/2000 = $0.063 each (just over 6 cents per page)
Notes: Make sure you include the costs of replaceable drums or fusers or maintenance kits etc.
The cost of printer ink cartridges and their yields is often readily available on the manufacturers website
By following the above steps, you should be able to determine the cost of office printing and with some investigation on printers and printer ink cartridges you should be on the way to lowering the cost of printing.
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