I happened to be surfing Gizmodo this morning, and they had this funny link to how much ink cartridges cost in comparison to things like Bottled Water, Blood and Oil.
I really was set back on how much more the ink costs were in comparison to everything else.
I expected ink costs to be more, but not nearly double the cost of Human Blood!
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Now this article was created in 2006, and things have changed, but I don't expect them to have changed all that much. So what does this mean? We think it means that unless you really, really have a need for a color printer (like you need to make nice presentations, you print your own photos professionally, you basically are a business in need of one) you should have moved over to a nice laser printer a few years ago.
The cost of ownership is MUCH less, and you can sometimes even refill your own toner cartridges for 20% the cost of buying a new one (which if you did buy a new one, it still is about the same price as a single black ink cartridge).
We're currently selling some brand new Canon all in one (Print, Scan, Fax) Laser printers for $125. That's absurdly cheap. But what makes the deal even better is that you can get third party toner cartridges for around $30-$35. That's around another 2,000-4,000 pages of printing for what you normally would get 150-250 pages out of that inkjet for.
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We also sell new and used Laser and Inkjet printers for much less than that!
As always, your mileage may vary, but you can always keep your pocketbook from bleeding to death by moving to Laser and leaving services like Snapfish or Walgreen's to print your pictures.
-Nate
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