Ink refills will definitely drop the costs radically. Using ink refills is probably cheaper than in the shop. You can check this easily: how much is the price of an original cartridge and how much is the price of a refill cartridge. Example: if the price of an original cartridge is three times...
I still think there will not be a real ink war between original cartridge manufacturers and third party ink sellers. There is a lot of competition, but it's not as axtreme as when there would be a 'war'. It's simple: original manufacturers produce the printers so if they have competition they...
I am not sure that prices will decrease. At this moment there are only four big printer manufacturers: HP, Epson, Canon and Lexmark. They do everything to prevent competition: they don't compare themselves with the competitors and they make it more difficult then necessary to find data to...
Printing photo's at home is often more expensive then printing photos in the shop. The ink costs are very high. Besides, when printing goes wrong you have to print again, that costs you even more ink, in the shop you only pay the quality photos. You can find the costs of photo printing at my site.
Laser printers are becoming cheaper each year. We think that more and more people will decide to buy a laser printer, especially when they need it for text printing. It's price is higher but the costs of printing are less. Because laser printer prices are decreasing every year the number of...
For anybody who doesn't know when to buy a laser printer:
Laser printers can be interesting when only printing text and printing at least 3,000 pages per year. If you want more information about this, you can put your question in this forum.
Roy
www.printeradvice.com has a new tool: a photo print cost calculator. I think this new tool is very useful. I would like it when you take a look and post your comments in this forum or you mail it to webmaster@printeradvice.com
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First I would like to thank you all for your posts about www.printeradvice.com. I was glad to read these positive posts. But we are working very hard to improve the site. Why? We think that transparancy improves competition. The effect we want to achieve is that manufacturers...
Finally a site has developed a consumer-friendly printer cost calculator. Most sites only tell you how much a printer costs in the shop, but this site calculates also the costs for your ink. You fill in how many pages you print each year and how many years you want to use the printer, press the...