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Laser or Ink-Jet Printer?

That $100 inkjet is eating your office supply budget!

It’s true. HP, Epson, Canon, Brother’s inkjet are expensive to operate. Look at the stated yields on the packages. It’s not usually to see sub-200 sheets per cartridge on the smaller refills. They are basing this on about 5% fill. That means if you buy a 200 page yield magenta cartridge it’ll put a dark magenta spot covering %5 of a sheet for 200 pages. That works out to a 2.33 inch square box on your letter sized (8.5″ x 11″) page.

If you fill the entire page with magenta, you’ll get 10 pages, ink cartridge done. So if you have something with a purple background that takes magenta and cyan at 50% each, you’ll blow through both cartridges in 20 pages. At say a cheap $12 a cartridge that works out to $24/20 = $1.20 per page not including the other colors. If you did a full process black (all colors) that would be a nice $2.40 per ugly page.  Welcome to the insanity of inkjets. Oh, the other fun issue, ink cartridges have expiration dates. You have one on the shelf too long you have to throw it out.

I tell all my clients to at least get a black and white laser printer/multi-functional to keep a lid on printing costs. It only cost a few pennies per page or less. Keep the inkjet for when you really need color. If you’re doing lots of color get a mid-range color laser printer or a color copier on maintenance contract is even better. A copier on maintenance can come in under 10 cents a page no matter what the fill. That’s the best deal ever for color.

We have vendors that can keep your print costs very manageable, give us a call today.