The price of printing

[mercphoto]

I have an Epson R200 printer. While I can easily calculate the cost for paper for each print I've made, I haven't taken the time to track how often I'm changing ink cartridges. Now I'm at a point where I have inks at varying levels of depletion and been through numerous cartridges. Kinda hard to calculate now w/o changing them all out and doing a lot of prints. Does anyone have any reliable estimates of how much a full-page sheet costs to print?

[cmr164]

I have an Epson R200 printer. While I can easily calculate the cost for paper for each print I've made, I haven't taken the time to track how often I'm changing ink cartridges. Now I'm at a point where I have inks at varying levels of depletion and been through numerous cartridges. Kinda hard to calculate now w/o changing them all out and doing a lot of prints. Does anyone have any reliable estimates of how much a full-page sheet costs to print? "Like the RX500 I’ve reviewed previously here, the R200 uses 6 ink cartridges (both printers use the same cartridges). Replacement black cartridges cost about $17, with each color cartridge costing $12. Epson rates the black cartridge for 450 pages at 5% coverage (which means about 4 cents per page for text printing), and the color cartridges at 430 pages with 5% coverage. Based on our experience with both printers, I feel the Epson estimates are reasonable. Our experience indicates that if you only printed photo’s with this printer ( or the RX500), you would get about 200 prints per set of cartridges for a cost of about $0.35 per photo printed. Full page photo prints will require about $1 worth of ink." (http://www.epinions.com/content_141398871684)

[mercphoto]

Full page photo prints will require about $1 worth of ink.

Thanks, that's what I was looking for. At that price I'm better off printing my own iPhoto books and using a ring binder or comb binding, rather than ordering the linen bound book from Apple. :) Looks like less than half the cost when all is said and done.