You're buying a new printer and you want to know what gives you the best bang for your buck.
Taking away factors such as print speed, and quality of print ( for genuine recognized brands, are nearly always high ), which can otherwise be important considerations for you, the most important consideration in purchasing a printer is its total cost i.e. price plus running costs over a period of its lifetime, say 3 years.
Running costs do matter, and a printer with a lower cost per page isn't necessarily going to be cheaper in the longer term. To find out which printer is the best buy, you need to compute the total cost of printing over the printer's lifetime.
In undertaking your comparisons, make sure that the printer cartridge usage yields you use are from reliable suppliers where the yields are measured in terms of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Remember that cartridge prices are irrelevant unless you also know how many pages the cartridge will print. Focus on the cost per page, not the cost per cartridge. Estimate the number of pages you print per month, both in monochrome (black), and in colour. In printer usage colour also uses the black cartridge.
Following is a table that will assist you in determining what total printer costa are to you:
PRINTER |
PRICE |
COST PER PAGE |
RUNNING COSTS PER MONTH |
TOTAL COST PER MONTH |
3-YEAR RUNNING COSTS |
TOTAL 3-YEAR COST |
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COLOUR |
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WHAT WILL BE THE REAL COST OF THE PRINTER I BUY
You're buying a new printer and you want to know what gives you the best bang for your buck.
Taking away factors su...
