On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > Â godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com
Hmm, I'm seeing somewhat different numbers, about 15-25% actually based on those prices (3800 at 80ml for $59.99 is about $0.75/ml, R2400 at 11.5ml is right around $1/ml, 13ml is at 0.90/ml, I've seen both capacities quoted for the R2400 carts, some claim 15ml but I'm pretty sure that's too high if the refillers can only get 13ml into a cartridge) Looking it up on Atlex, looks like the 110ml inks for the 4880 are 69.99 and the 220's are 112.99. That's a piss-poor price on the 220's btw, essentially retail (They're $113.99CDN at Henry's here in Canada) and good pricing for the 3800's. That's about $0.53/ml in the 220's. Note I'm just doing the numbers here for anybody else who's interested (like Paul) As to space, the 4880's designed for use on a stand and connectivity via ethernet so it's a lot easier to find a place for than the deskridden smaller printers. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
