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How to buy the best printer
Picture this scenario:
You see a flyer advertising this “phenomenal” printer at an incredibly reasonable price. You wonder, do you just buy it because it looks like a great deal? Do you know what you’re getting? Sometimes, the printers on sale are not always the most reasonable or inexpensive in the long run. What you have to look into yourself, before purchasing a new printer, is the cost of ink to keep replenishing your printer’s supply. Some cheap printers have low page yield, high price-tag cartridges and some more expensive printers have fantastically priced cartridges that will save you more and more money the longer you own the printer. Check it out!
Check out this video for what to look for when you go to buy your next printer.
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Will you really void your warranty?
Voided Warranty… Really? I don’t think so.
Printer companies have taken to adding some verbiage in their LCD screens on the new printers that inform you that your printer warranty does not cover damage due to using non OEM (original equipment manufacturer) product. I have an HP Officejet 8500. Of course I use my own ink. I have no issues except that HP keeps telling me my warranty is void. Check out the following article from alotofthings.com , it should answer that question.
Courtesy of alotofthings.com
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What is the true cost of my printing?
I was sitting at my front desk shortly after the store opened in 2009. A lady walked in and stood in the middle of the store. She said, “I only came in to tell you I don’t need to shop here. I have a laser printer and my cartridges are only $39!”
I wasn’t sure what to think, let alone say. I’ve been in retail for over 40 years and, really, had never seen something like this before. I decided to engage her in conversation. I found out that her printer was a Samsung (overall good printer). I was able to get the model number from her. I looked up her cartridge at the local big chain office store. Sure enough, it was $39.99 – a really great price for a toner cartridge. Here’s the rub though… it is only a 750 page yield cartridge. 750 pages? Really? That works out to 5.3¢ for every piece of paper she prints – including the ones she rips up or throws away. For a laser that is in the unheard of territory of expensive.
Most laser cartridges will cost you more than $40. However, about the lowest yield cartridge is a 1,500 page cartridge for about $52. If you do the math (and you should always do the math!) that is 3.5¢ per printed page (don’t forget our last blog post – that’s 5% coverage). Even that is expensive by laser standards.
So, what’s the point? Here it is, always do the math before you buy any printer of any kind. There are many good printers out there made by many good manufacturers. If you have already purchased a printer you can look at the cost of XL cartridges versus regular. If you haven’t, then you must do the math.
Look at it this way: you buy a printer (printer 1) for $49.99. There’s another printer (printer 2) you saw for $199.99 – $150 more. Printer one takes a cartridge that cost $39.99 and provides you with a yield of 750 pages. That’s 5.3¢ per page. Printer 2 uses a cartridge that costs $149.99 and provides 8,000 pages. That’s 1.9¢ per page. You are savings 3.4¢ every page you print. If you do the math (Please, stop it! I’ll do the math) you will have paid the $150 difference for printer 2 half way through the first cartridge (4,411 pages x 3.4¢ = $150). Look at it another way (yes, more math) – to print 7,500 pages will take you 10 toners @ 750 pages each, or $399.99.
If you want to know the true cost of your printing, just do the math.
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A new page for Quality Ink and Toner
Hello World – Quality Ink and Toner Here
So, here we are. This is actually the first real blog entry for our website. Please bear with us as we begin our great blog adventure. Our goal is to be informative and helpful to you in the realm of printing.
We specialize in offering environmentally friendly re-charged and re-manufactured ink and toner cartridges. But that’s not what this blog is all about. Our goal is to offer you insights into the printing world – specifically your printing world.
In the coming weeks, months, and well, yes, years, we will provide you with information about the true cost of printing, printer reviews, what to look for in a printer, what printer is right for you, and more. Let’s start with some stuff about page yields.
Page yield is the measuring stick used by printer manufacturers to let you know how many pages you “get” (more on the quotation marks in a bit) from a specific cartridge. Unfortunately, there is no standard law which requires the manufacturer to put page yields on their cartridges. HP is very good about putting page yields in their advertising. Lexmark and Dell use page yields sporadically. Page yields for Epson and Canon are hard to find. Beware: When a manufacturer neglects to publish page yield data about a cartridge, it is usually a sign that the yield is not very good. Common sense tells us that if page yield is good, the manufacturer will brag about it. If they’re not bragging about it… well beware.
Now, about the “get” in page yield. Page yields are universally based upon page coverage of 5%, the accepted standard for a typical letter. That means that if 5% of the piece of paper (always standard letter size paper) is covered with ink, page yield standard requirement is met. Let’s use the HP #56 cartridge as an example. The standard page yield at 5% for this cartridge is 450 pages. If you typically use legal size paper or do a lot of graphics or charts you will get less yield than the 450 standard yield. If you do the math – 10% page coverage results in a page yield of 225. 20% results in a page yield of 113. Page yield is an accurate and accepted way of comparing different cartridges, but in no way is it a guarantee of production for that cartridge. It all depends on how you print.
We hope this helps a little. Next: What is the true cost of my printing?
