The Cost per copy on copiers / printers

With toner/ drum cartridges

Oftentimes manufacturers will estimate a cost per copy and a copy yield based on page coverage.  Usually the manufacturer bases the yield on 5% toner coverage.

 

Ink/toner consumption is usually described by printer vendors as the number of 8.5x11 pages with 5% filling of toner (normal text), which can be printed using one cartridge.

 

If a cartridge costs $89.00 and the manufacturers yield is 2000 copies based on 5% toner coverage the theoretical cost per copy would be $89.00/2000 copies =

4.45 cents per copy

8.86 % toner coverage

The screen shot to the left is a free       downloadable program from the internet that establishes toner coverage. When the program was used to calculate the toner coverage of the 3 sentences above, the program reported  8.86% toner  coverage, or 1.77 pages at 5% toner coverage.

 

2000 copies / 1.77 = 1,130 pages per cartridge.

 

$89.00 / 1,130 copies= 7.8 cents per copy true cost on copies of the three sentences above. 7.8 cents per copy equates to $78.00 for 1000 copies not including paper.  Copy paper ranges in cost from $5.00 to $7.00 per 1000 for 20 lb paper.  The cost of the machine of $300.00 to $500.00  becomes negligible if you plan on running more than 15,000 copies.

If your annual volume is 1000 copies buy a cartridge based machine.

If your annual volume  is 10,000 copies, a commercial grade machine will be best.

If a customer runs 10,000 copies per year and they want to use the cartridge based machine for 3 years they may have spent $780.00 X 3 years= $2340.00

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