Re: cheap ink

[Iain <iain.coghill@eiflex.com>]

I would have thought a continuous ink system such as the Lyson one: 
http://www.lyson.com/cis.html would be most suitable for educational 
establishments. The initial outlay is high but I worked out that they 
would pay for themselves before the first set of 125ml bottles are used up.

Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> Keith,
> The figures I have for ink are .008-.016 cents per square INCH, and 
> considering there are 144 sq. inches in a square foot, my cost for ink 
> we figured is $1.15-2.30. I think I got answers from a bunch of 
> different sources, and then averaged. Jack Fulton was one that 
> responded to that question.  So your .0069 per square inch is not too 
> bad. Where did you get that statistic, and is it for Epson inks?
>
> This last semester our department of 120 majors used $10,000 worth of 
> ink. We had collected fees of our digital users, which amounted to 
> about 70 who paid fees and therefore used the printers--we charged 
> each student $95 and, of course, had to eat the rest. Now, this is 
> with large cartridges, too--more economical than the puny ones that 
> come with, say, the Epson 2400. So the ink fee per student is going up 
> to $135 I think.
>
> What's sad about this is that we are retiring the huge color machine 
> in our wet lab at the end of May.  Parts are getting scarce, when it 
> breaks down it takes a long time to fix, and, frankly, students are 
> not using it like they used to because they can do color quickly and 
> easily on digital printers. So an 8x10 print that used to cost pennies 
> in a color machine will now cost $.64-1.28 for the ink and then the 
> added cost of the paper as well.
>
> I feel your pain...
> Chris
>
>
> > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Keith Gerling wrote:
> >
> > > .....   I just learned this
> > > morning that it costs $1-2 per square foot for ink on the 7600 that 
> > > I have
> > > my eye on.  Say WHAT?  That is expensive, given I like big prints.