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On 13/10/11 11:21, Gordon Henderson wrote:
I once met a printer cartridge salesperson who told me that lexmark pretty much gave away their kit and all profit was from cartridges and pixel for pixel theirs are the most expensive...On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Chris Tipney wrote:On 13/10/2011 08:50, Gordon Henderson wrote:It's a 4-colour laser printer too.So you need to replace 4 cartridges from time to timeHumm - so was our Lexmark Postscript device - needed to work with she's Imac. I should have checked first but each of the cartridges is £150 to replace and the printer came with just those stupid 'get you going' cartridges that last about a week. The true cost of the first year of use - nearly £600 ! Ok so the new cartridges will last a long time - but do check the costs first.Cost was £175.You have been (gently :-) ) warned.Ah. Right. Not yet checked the cost of supplies... Not my problem for the one in that office, however...The HP carts suggest up to 8000 pages of average use... I wonder if it's cheaper the buy a new printer...Once upon a time there was a site called FreeColourPrinter.co.uk or something like it... (Hm. still exists, but in a slightly different form)Gordon
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