On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > Godfey, with your print numbers, I'd strongly recommend doing a cost > comparison on the 3800 and 4880. When I did the math, between the 4800 > and 2400 at list, the 4800 payed for itself around 300 prints in ink > costs alone. The 3800's better than the 2xx0 series in ink costs (80ml > carts rather than $15-ish 12ml carts), but 220ml ink carts for ~$100 > each vs just under $70 for 80ml 3800 carts (the smaller 110ml carts > for the 48x0 are around $75). These are all at Canadian retail > pricing, but the ratio's will be similar even for discounted ink. At > 900+ prints a year I suspect the 4880 will quickly pay for itself.
Atlex sells R3880 ink at $59.95 a tank and R2400 ink at $11.75 a tank. When I did the cost analysis a couple of months ago, that means the R3880's base cost of ink per ml was only about a 5% savings over the R2400, and any additional savings is likely due to the fewer change/clean cycles (each of which consumes another percentage of ink from every cartridge). That's going to take a long time (a lot of prints) to recover the additional cost of the printer based on the cost of ink (about $500). I haven't run numbers on the 3800 vs 4880. R4880 tanks are indeed much much larger than the R2400, and quite a lot larger than the R3880. Of course, I'll do the math when the time comes. The other factor will be how much money I have to spend, of course. Ya gotta be able to make the initial investment in the printer too, and have space for it and supplies. The R4880 takes up a LOT more room than the R2400 or R3880. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
