daylef
Newbie to Printing
- Joined
- Aug 8, 2014
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- Printer Model
- Samsung CLP 620nd, Epson Artis
Hi I'm new here.
I recently bought a Samsung colour laser multifunction for a club based operation and got chatted for buying a colour when black would have done given the higher cost. I started to think that perhaps the cost of each print shouldn't be much difference given the same content printed in black or colour (the purchase cost was obviously higher).
By that I mean, supposing I had a single page with an average text content on it and an orange crest on the top. If I set the printer to print black only, the crest will obviously be black (or a shade of grey) and let's say hypothetically that it used 2 Nano grams of black toner to print the text and 10 Nano grams of black toner to print the crest. Now I switch to colour and print again. Wouldn't it be logical to use 2 Nano grams of black toner for the text, 5 Nano grams of magenta and 5 Nano grams of yellow for the orange crest (or obviously the right amounts of the correct colours)?
If what I am suggesting is correct, there isn't a great deal of difference in the cost per print provided the cost of the colour toners is close to the black.
I have had very little luck trying to track an answer down via the net. However one respondent to a forum suggested you simply add the cost of the colour toners together and divide by the advertised page yield of the smallest toner, which is obviously incorrect.
Hoping someone can shed some light on it.
Cheers...
I recently bought a Samsung colour laser multifunction for a club based operation and got chatted for buying a colour when black would have done given the higher cost. I started to think that perhaps the cost of each print shouldn't be much difference given the same content printed in black or colour (the purchase cost was obviously higher).
By that I mean, supposing I had a single page with an average text content on it and an orange crest on the top. If I set the printer to print black only, the crest will obviously be black (or a shade of grey) and let's say hypothetically that it used 2 Nano grams of black toner to print the text and 10 Nano grams of black toner to print the crest. Now I switch to colour and print again. Wouldn't it be logical to use 2 Nano grams of black toner for the text, 5 Nano grams of magenta and 5 Nano grams of yellow for the orange crest (or obviously the right amounts of the correct colours)?
If what I am suggesting is correct, there isn't a great deal of difference in the cost per print provided the cost of the colour toners is close to the black.
I have had very little luck trying to track an answer down via the net. However one respondent to a forum suggested you simply add the cost of the colour toners together and divide by the advertised page yield of the smallest toner, which is obviously incorrect.
Hoping someone can shed some light on it.
Cheers...