costadinos
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I've been keeping a log of the amount of pages I print and ink used, for my P50 and R2000 (both using a CISS of course), I thought I should post the results for those interested.
The "sample" is very large, so the results should be pretty accurate.
I'm simply counting the number of pages printed and the total ink used (some colors get used up faster than others obviously, but the cost for different colors of ink of the same brand is usually the same anyway).
For the P50:
5000 A4-equivalent (8x12" if you prefer) prints, mostly in normal photo mode (not the "Best Photo" mode), total ink used was 5.5L.
That translates to about 90 A4 full color prints per 100ml of ink.
For the R2000:
3500 A4 prints, again in normal photo mode, matte and photo black used equally. Gloss optimizer wasn't taken into account in the total ink amount. Total ink for this printer was 3.2L.
So that's about 110 A4 prints per 100ml of ink.
The "sample" is very large, so the results should be pretty accurate.
I'm simply counting the number of pages printed and the total ink used (some colors get used up faster than others obviously, but the cost for different colors of ink of the same brand is usually the same anyway).
For the P50:
5000 A4-equivalent (8x12" if you prefer) prints, mostly in normal photo mode (not the "Best Photo" mode), total ink used was 5.5L.
That translates to about 90 A4 full color prints per 100ml of ink.
For the R2000:
3500 A4 prints, again in normal photo mode, matte and photo black used equally. Gloss optimizer wasn't taken into account in the total ink amount. Total ink for this printer was 3.2L.
So that's about 110 A4 prints per 100ml of ink.
