How much on average does it cost to print out a page?

Chickenbrain2009

PS, Originally I did send scanned copies, but Ebay banned me from doing it! They said it was too easy to forge my own feedback! Eventually I want to set up my own website as I am doing quite well, but I need the volume to build up first. I think its disgraceful that I cant sell scanned copies, its quicker and cheaper for everyone as now people have to pay the postage.

elektra

Chickenbrain2009 wrote: »

PS, Originally I did send scanned copies, but Ebay banned me from doing it! They said it was too easy to forge my own feedback!.

How do they think you could forge your own feedback?

How does it matter how the purchaser received the goods, as long as they are happy with goods and leave appropriate feedback.

LincolnshireYokel

james123 wrote: »

It really depends on how much your printer ink costs, and it should tell you on the ink packet how many pages you should get.

So if the ink cost £20 and it can do 100 pages (check packet)
20 divided by 100 = 0.20 so 20p each. Then add the cost of paper.

HTH

Its more complexe than that.

The expected life of the print has to be built into it,

Laser printers, for example a HPLJ4, are designed to do about 500k - 1 mill prints. A toner/OHP drum set is about £40, lasts about 50k pages. Paper is about £2 a ream.

So the total cost of printing would be the purchase price of the printer, plus all the consumables used by the printer during its life(paper, toner, OHP drum, etc), divided by the number of pages printed.

So something like

(£2000 + (10 x £40) + (2000 x £2) )/1000000 = 0.0064p per page.

which is why business use laser printers, cos there very cheap in the long term. You could also try and build in the cost of electricity into this.

victor2

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Its more complexe than that.

The expected life of the print has to be built into it,

Laser printers, for example a HPLJ4, are designed to do about 500k - 1 mill prints. A toner/OHP drum set is about £40, lasts about 50k pages. Paper is about £2 a ream.

So the total cost of printing would be the purchase price of the printer, plus all the consumables used by the printer during its life(paper, toner, OHP drum, etc), divided by the number of pages printed.

So something like

(£2000 + (10 x £40) + (2000 x £2) )/1000000 = 0.0064p per page.

which is why business use laser printers, cos there very cheap in the long term. You could also try and build in the cost of electricity into this.

You missed the actual toner out of that, only including a drum kit.
Toner for a LJ4 from Staples is £99.87 and rated for 6800 pages by HP. Plus you can usually get them much cheaper by shopping around.
Call it £100 per 7000 pages and still cheap at 1.4p per page in toner.
So, a monochrome laser printer can be considered to cost less than 2 pence per printed page, much less than any inkjet I've ever seen.

LincolnshireYokel

yes, 1p-2p a page should be the sort of target you aim for.,

Figment

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Its more complexe than that.

The expected life of the print has to be built into it,

Laser printers, for example a HPLJ4, are designed to do about 500k - 1 mill prints. A toner/OHP drum set is about £40, lasts about 50k pages. Paper is about £2 a ream.

So the total cost of printing would be the purchase price of the printer, plus all the consumables used by the printer during its life(paper, toner, OHP drum, etc), divided by the number of pages printed.

So something like

(£2000 + (10 x £40) + (2000 x £2) )/1000000 = 0.0064p per page.

which is why business use laser printers, cos there very cheap in the long term. You could also try and build in the cost of electricity into this.

These figures only work if the printer is used to it's maximum design capacity throughout it's life. The average home user is only going to print a fraction of the number of pages (My trusty old HP4000N (RIP) only printed 7900 pages in it's lifetime).

So in my case, and using your figures of £2000 for the printer with no drum replacement, 16 reams of paper and 1 replacement toner the cost would be

£2000 + (0 x £40) + (16 x £2) + (1 x £100) / 7900 = 26.98p per page.

Now obviously in hindsight I wouldn't have purchased a 2 grand printer to do less than 8000 pages, but I didn't know that at the time!

To be totally accurate you also need to factor in the cost of power to run the printer.

Yut_Man

I have tried many types of printers over the years. and lasers are definitly the way to go. not only are they much cheaper to run they also last much longer. My old brother laser printer lasted me over 10 years and I was printing 2000 A4 sheets a year, many of which was onto cardboard. however on inkjets I was replacing the cartridges constantly and found them to give a inferior print quality. If you try refilling the ink cartridges the matter gets much worst. Im back to using Lasers again had this one for 3 years and still going strong.