Comments on: New Consumer Calculator: Save on Printer Ink

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:53:16 +0000

Steve, I tried the “0″ suggestion for seeing higher cost ink printers, that does not work! The result showed only the cost of the printers and ranked them that way.

I agree with Caitlin. I did not find this chart very useful. I do wish I had known about this chart before my latest printer/scanner purchase.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:34:27 +0000

I agree and plan to update the calculator to show many more printers, once we pay a programmer to make these changes.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:57:31 +0000

I LOVE this idea, but I would really find this calculator more useful if you just went ahead and included all results ascending by cost. The problem with just showing the “best” ten is that we consumers may be considering a number of other features and capabilities in our printers, even in cheap printers–scanning, print quality, software and warranties, for example. If I am considering a handful of printers, I have no way of knowing from those results if you have included any or all of the printers I am considering in your comparisons, especially if they are on the edge of your $150 range. I’m not sure what you think is too complicated about a table of eighty printers showing only a couple parameters for each. My guess is that shoppers willing to obsess like I am over a relatively small printer purchase are a little more savvy than you are giving them credit for.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:37:44 +0000

Pepe,
The ink calculator includes about 80 printers, many are HPs, Epson and so on. The ink calculator only shows the 10 best (lowest cost) printers. We did that in order to keep the results onto one screen for easy viewing. If you want to see higher cost printers, try entering “zero” pages, which will show you the printers that are inexpensive to buy, but costly to operate.

By: Pepe

Pepe — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:05:20 +0000

I’d tried your calculator and I didn’t find it useful, probably you may work a little more on that calculator, to include more models and printer marks, probably you can try with more epson and at least a pair of HP. Don’t you?

By: ineke

ineke — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:24:32 +0000

Type your comment here.Has anyone information about the HP Photosmart C5380???
will be pleased to hear comments.
ineke

By: jodie

jodie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:13:10 +0000

The Epson CX printers in the calculator comes in around 9 cents per B&W page, 17 to 19 cents per color page and 39 cents per photo. It would be easier if these companies just printed the cost per page, instead of hiding it from consumers.

By: Nielan Genz

Nielan Genz — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:40:24 +0000

Has anyone information on the Espon CX4800?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:50:36 +0000

It cuts the ink cost by as much as half, though often less than that.

Some do it yourself refill kits significantly reduce ink costs, but are messy, etc…

However, one study claims that refill print quality is not as good.

Also, some cartridges cannot be refilled because of the manufacturer’s design.

By: Steve Lee

Steve Lee — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:49:34 +0000

Can anyone comment to the idea of refilling cartridges like at Walgreens? and how that would effect the per copy cost?