There are many factors constituting printing costs, and there are several aspects: the printer purchase cost, use consumables cost, paper cost. The purchase cost mainly refers to the price of the printer. It is the cost of a one-time expenditure when purchasing the product; the cost of consumables refers to the cost of consuming life during the printer usage, the cost of consumables and consumables are 2 direct Factors affecting the cost of consumables; paper cost is mainly due to different printers to paper's adaptability, users should receive different paper quality (printing speed and print quality) requires different paper, which requires different fees.
Therefore, evaluating a printer's printing cost should not only look at the price or consumable price, but it needs to be considering from a number of aspects. The following we will analyze the printing costs of different printer products.
Black and white laser printer
The main consumables of the black and white laser printer are toner, toner cartridges and fixing rollers, etc., and the black and white laser printers of the drum powder integration and drum separation are also different, drum powder integrated black and white laser printers in toner cartridges and toner cartridges Integrating, regardless of the life of the toner cartridge, once the toner is exhausted, the toner cartridge will be replaced by the toner cartridge; the replacement cycle of the drum of the drum-separated black and white laser printer is far more than the replacement cycle of the toner cartridge. . Since the life of the fixing roller is mostly tens of thousands or more, sometimes the fixing roller is often not considered consumables.
Since the current drum toner is mainly mainstream in the black and white laser printer, the printing cost of the black and white laser printer we discussed here is also based on the drum-based structure. Currently recognized one-page printing cost calculation formula for a black and white laser printer: single page printing cost = printer price / print pages (print pages / toner cartridge capacity -1) × toner cartridge price / Print page Number, from the formula we see that the single page printing cost of the black and white laser printer has a certain relationship with the number of pages of printing, because with the increase of the number of print pages, the whole machine price costs that are allocated to each page of printing paper gradually reduce. The "Microcomputer World" evaluation laboratory once tested the single page printing cost in the product horizontal evaluation of the black and white laser printer, in Table 1, we selected the test results of the HP LaserJet 1000 for use with color inkjet printers (table 1 Select the current application of a very popular inkjet printer product that we tested. From the table we can see that as the number of print pages increases, the single page printing cost of the black and white laser printer is gradually decreasing, and when the number of prints exceeds 6000 pages, the single page printing cost advantage of the black and white laser printer is very obvious. .
Black and white laser and color inkjet printer print cost contrast (5% coverage)
