Hello, On Feb 11 21:46 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):
... I use a laser color printer (HP cp1515n)
Just for fun an example how one could calculate printing costs (i.e. the costs for a printed page) according to information what HP provides on their German web pages: Their HP Color LaserJet CP1510 model web page reads 249 Euros for the printer which has 4 so called "Starter" toner cartridges included which last up to 750 printed pages according to the "ISO/IEC 19798" standard so that one "ISO/IEC 19798" printed page costs about 33 Euro Cent (without the money for the plain paper). Their supplies web page reads 76,99 Euros for the black toner replacement cartridge which last up to 2200 printed pages and there times 70,49 Euros for each of the cyan, yellow, and magenta toner replacement cartridges which last up to 1400 pages. The price of a set of replacement cartridges is 288,46 Euros which is more than the price of the printer but this does not mean that it is cheaper (i.e. less costs for a printed page) to buy a new printer after its initial toner cartridges have become empty because: The overall price for the printer plus one set of replacement cartridges is 537,46 Euros which last up to about 750 + 1400 = 2150 printed pages so that one "ISO/IEC 19798" printed page costs about 25 Euro Cent (without the money for the plain paper). With 10 sets of replacement cartridges the overall price for printer plus all replacement cartridges is 3133,60 Euros which last up to about 14750 printed pages so that one "ISO/IEC 19798" printed page costs about 21 Euro Cent (without the money for the plain paper). Therfore it makes sense to buy initially the printer plus one set of replacement cartridges but it does not make much sense to buy initially the printer plus 10 sets of replacement cartridges because I think it is better to keep the 2596,14 Euros for 9 of the 10 sets of replacement cartridges on a bank account so that it can yield interest ;-) Of course the costs for A4 photo printouts are very much higher because the complete printable area of A4 paper is printed and good photo paper is much more expensive.
And I no longer have to clean heads :-)
And in particular with a PostScript color laser printer you do no longer have to clean the brain in your own head from all those bizarre nightmares about never-ending troubles regarding how to tame whatever cheap printer beast ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org