There are inkjet printers for every budget. At
low end, you can pay less than $50. At high-end, you can pay several hundred dollars. However, purchase price of an inkjet printer is not best way to determine how good of a bargain you are getting.The truth of matter is, printer ink is not cheap. An inkjet cartridge for your $50 printer can cost you $30. That means that cost of two inkjet cartridges will be more than cost of your purchase price.
A much better way to determine if you are getting a bargain on your inkjet printer is to try to figure out what it will cost you over period of one year. That means you have to add cost of your inkjet cartridges to purchase price of your printer. To give you an idea of your cost, here’s a simple way to estimate your cost.
First, look up how many pages you inkjet cartridge will print. Then, make a rough estimate of how many pages of print you print each week. Multiply your weekly estimate by 52 to get total pages for year. Finally, divide total number of pages per year by number of cartridges your printer is rated to print. This will tell you how many inkjet cartridges you will need to purchase in a year.
For example, suppose your ink cartridge prints 200 pages and you estimate you print 20 pages per week. That means you’d print 1040 pages in one year. If you divide 1040 pages by 200 pages, you’d have to buy 6 cartridges to cover your printing for one year.
