Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!glacier!busker!f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Richard.Kanner From: Richard.Kanner@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Richard Kanner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Deskwriter, Where? $$$ ? (SUMMARY) Message-ID: <690.2783DF54@busker.fidonet.org> Date: 28 Dec 90 03:26:25 GMT Sender: ufgate@busker.fidonet.org (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH Lines: 39 Reply-To: rich@sdchemf In article gillies@cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes: > >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. Aside from economics of scraping together $1800 as opposed to $670, your math is slightly screwed up in that example. Cost for 30,000 pages for a $1800 laser printer @ 3c/pg is $900 + $1800 = $2700 and for the Deskwriter it is $2470, assuming 6c/pg. The desk writer is cheaper not to mention if you put the diffence of $1130 in the bank you could make $70-100 depending upon interest. In addition printing 30000 pages would take most users of personal printers many years to print that many pages. 30 pg/day is 2.73 yrs. By then you will probably want a new printer. I average about 5 pgs/day. and alot of my stuff I print in draft mode, so I get a lot more mileage out of a cartridge. The deskwriter is an inexpensive, reasonable quality, quite, personal printer, not ment for high volume printing. R. Kanner UCSD Chem + Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego -- Richard Kanner - via FidoNet node 1:105/14 UUCP: ...!{uunet!glacier, ..reed.bitnet}!busker!226!20!Richard.Kanner INTERNET: Richard.Kanner@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG