<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:19:26AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > well, and people continue to get gouged pretty deeply by the cost.<br>
> > Get a big office machine and the ink containers hold a pint of ink.<br>
> > In a home printers it's a tiny thimble full.<br>
><br>
> Ink can spoil, btw. We had a professional HP color inkjet here at the<br>
> office that went unused for too long, and the ink spoiled. (I think it<br>
> dried out, not sure.)<br>
<br>
</div>I've had cartridges dry out. It's very frustrating to have ~$30 worth<br>
of ink dry up and be unusable.<br>
<br>
For total cost of ownership laser printers are the way to go. You pay<br>
more up front but the cost per page is significantly lower. Over the<br>
course of several years (which the average laser printer *will* last)<br>
the savings on toner will more than compensate for the higher cost of<br>
the printer.<br>
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john-thomas <br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Seems right. Laser printers have come</div><div>way down in price, and time for the first</div><div>page is down from many minutes to several</div><div>seconds. And of course the cartridges are </div>
<div>stable when not used.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>
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