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As per usual, your posting (Miss Perspicacia Tick) is abrasive, if not
insulting, and contains incomplete or inaccurate information.
For the benefit of the original poster: the cost of running a printer is
dependent on how it is used. For instance, should you tend to rarely
use color, but only print a few black and white text or images a day or
so, you will find that each time you turn on the printer it will go
through a cleaning routine which will use up the black and colored inks.
Some people have found that although they may never use the color
inks, they still will run out due to this cleaning process which can use
1%-5% of the ink in the cartridge each time, and then the printer will
not print until that cartridge is replaced.
Further, having separate color cartridges (one for each color) will not
save you any money in this situation, because they will all run out of
ink together from cleaning cycles, and they will cumulatively probably
cost more to replace that way.
Further still, there is very little savings, if any, in having separate
color cartridges unless you tend to only use one color very heavily. In
most photographic images, the colors end up being used fairly evenly.
The saving from individual cartridges is very much overrated, because
each time a cartridge is replaced with a new one, ALL the cartridges go
through an installation purging cycle, which can use up to 20% of the
ink in the cartridges. If several of these are required as individual
cartridges run low or out of ink, you can see how quickly, at 20% per
cycle, any cartridge that was having low usage would still run out of
ink during the purging cycles. Having one cartridge with 3 or 5 ink
colors, means it will only have one installation purging occur for all
the colors at the same time (although if you have a separate black
cartridge and it runs out, it may force a second purging process on the
color cartridge, since modern Epson printer only have one cleaning
station and vacuum pump, rather than two.
Any "all in one" which you use rarely for color will end up costly to
own as the ink is used up during first use of day cleanings. There are a
number of work arounds, but that are a bit cludgy.
You might wish to consider buying an inexpensive laser printer for all
the black and white work, and an "all in one" mainly for color work.
That way you might be able to reduce the number of times it needs to be
turned on and go through the regular cleaning process they go through
each time they are turned on.
Canon printers/all in one units may be cheaper to run in a larger
viewpoint. One can refill the cartridges fairly easily, and they
produce good quality results. You might want to ask about how much
cleaning the canon models do on start up each day, and if you can refill
the cartridges yourself with bulk inks, which can save you money.
Epson make refilling more difficult to accomplish.
Art
Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote:
> dcprenti wrote:
>
>>I am looking to buy a new printer-scanner machine and have less than
>>£100 to spend on it.
>>I will be using it mainly for printing text in black and white and
>>photo copying in black and white. I would like to have the the
>>option to print in colour aswell, although not necesarilly at photo
>>quality.
>>The most important features I am looking for in the machine are (in
>>descending order)
>>1. Cheapness of print cartridges
>>2. Reliability
>>
>>Any recomendations? Im leaning towards an Epson Stylus Cx3200. That
>>a good or bad idea? Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>>==============
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>>troubleshooting newsgroups.
>
>
>
> You don't really know much about printers, now do you? You obviously don't
> know the first rule of printers
>
> /The price of the printer is inversely proportional to the price of the
> cartridges./
>
> You are looking at a unit with an RRP of around £60. How on earth are
> cartridges for that going to be cheap?!
>
> The colour is around £27, the black £23. IOW, for an extra £10 you could
> purchase a whole new unit. The colour is also one tri-colour unit, which is
> incredibly wasteful.
>
>
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