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From: Don.Gillies@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Don Gillies)
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Subject: Re: Deskwriter, Where? $$$ ? (SUMMARY)
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Date: 27 Dec 90 10:34:17 GMT
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One of the messages indicated $13.95 + $15 for every 500 pages
printed, this is a per-page cost of approximately 6 cents.  Another
message indicated $5.35 + $15, for a per-page cost of about 4 cents.
How does this compare with a low-end laser printer (such as GCC or HP
PLP II)?  Where is the breakpoint, when you could have saved money
buying a laser printer instead of a deskwriter?  What if you want to
print 30,000 pages.  At 6c/page, this would cost $1800.  If you did it
on a laser printer at 3c/page, this would cost $900, and you could
afford to pay $900 + $670 = $1570 for the laserprinter.

 + Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

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