How much does a print cost from i960?

[DocFrankenstein]

Assuming I get bulk paper and inks

How much is it to print 8*10? 4*6?

Using thick photopaper

[DocFrankenstein]

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[Volatile]

Someone did an evaluation and came up with around $.50 per 4X6, and by using my extreme powers of extrapolation, I'm gonna say $1.50 per 8X10. Approximately.

What I remember is the bottom line: Go to Walmart for $.25 4X6's and print anything bigger at home. Unless, of course, you need it in a hurry.

[DocFrankenstein]

and by using my extreme powers of extrapolation
:lol: LOL

Was that ink only?

[Volatile]

I believe it was ink only. Paper is a subjective thing, some people opt for more expensive papers.

I wish I could find the thread, but someone had printed a boatload of 4X6's, and worked in how many ink cartridges he had gone through. Some estimation was involved for cartridges that ended up with about half on the ink left, and so forth, but it was a large enough sample to have used up more than one PM and PC.

I bet someone has got it measured out to the nearest picoliter. If I had more interest I'd start googling for it.

[atleypnorth]

that was me ... will see if i can find the data again

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=28834&highlight=

[DocFrankenstein]

that was me ... will see if i can find the data again

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=28834&highlight=
Cool. I came up with 54 A4 prints from one cartridge. Seems kinda reasonable and very economic.

So if I get inks at 15 CAD each, it's .27 CAD per letter size print.

Or did I forget to carry one somewhere? :twisted:

[atleypnorth]

wellllll .....
54 prints from a cartridge ...
i960 has 6 cartridges
each cartridge is 15 CAD
so cost per A4 is 6*15 / 54 = 1.67 CAD ?

[DocFrankenstein]

Not really. According to your data, if I understood it correctly, you've used a total of 593 cartridges(each having separate color) and printed an equivalent of 32008 letter size photos.

So, this means that one little container of ink on average produces 54 prints... Thus making the ink expense from 20 to 30 cents per A4 print.

Or am I reading your data wrong? :?

[atleypnorth]

roughly we got that on cartridge would produce 130 4x6 prints - this varies depending on the cartridge, eg we found black did more etc. But you need 6 cartridges for an i960

a 4x6 is about 1/4 of an A4?

So would estimate that each set of 6 cartridges would produce (130 / 4) = 32 A4 prints, so cost would per A4 would be (6*15) / 32 = 2.8

The data that is in the other post is usage across a mix of printers etc.
In total we did 18803 4x6 prints and 21809 A4 letters using 593 cartridges..
And i think we only had to replace one printer ...

[DocFrankenstein]

I don't agree with you multiplying the ink cartridges buy 6.

You have replaced all cartridges individually. You used 593 15 canadian dollar (assuming) cartgidges. Right? So you used 593*15=8895 dollars for ink only :shock:

But then you printed 18803 4*6 and 21809 A4.

Let's translate this to A4 prints. Area of 4*6 is 24 square inches. Area of A4 is 7*11=77 sq inches.

18803 over X (x being the # of A4 prints) = 77/24

X = (18803*24)/77 = 5860 A4 prints

So you printed a total of 21809 + 5860 = 27669

We want the cost, in dollars per print.

So it's price over the number of prints:

8895 dollars / 27669 A4 prints = 0.321~ Which is approximately 32 cents per A4 print. :?

Can you explain why you multiply that number by 6 in the end?

[kc0nxd]

I have printed about a thousand 4x6 images using canon photo paper pro stock and the previous version of the i960 printer the i950.

I have noticed a considerable drain on the Photo cartridges only. I was able to print nearly 240 photos at once from a fresh set of six cartridges. The only reason i stopped, was the fact that the photo cartridges were dry. The cyan and magenta (after another 20 - 30 prints) are the next to go with the yellow following soon after. These prints were mainly your normal daily use print sets. Things such as landscapes, poses outdoor during a river walk, and indoor photos for Christmas. So they were wide ranging. I feel this was a good sample of what most would call normal images.

With the Canon 6 cartridge system it does seem as though you are always changing a cartridge. However, the fact that you are only changing the tank of the depleted color is very nice.

I have pretty much used this printer for all my family prints since i purchased it. Mind you i had a contact that could get me the paper and ink at a substantial discount. Canon OEM paper 120 sheets of photo paper pro at 17.99 and 7.99 per cartridge. Now that i do not have that contact am looking for a sevice to do my prints as the per image price can be higher on the i950.

The multiplication of x6 is really not a correct assumption. I will sometimes run out two photo mag cartridges in the time it takes any others to drain and the photo cyan is the same way at times depending on image types/colors.
i can easily make it through a 120 pack on a single photo cyan or photo magenta or sometimes both.

Hope this helps.

[atleypnorth]

I don't agree with you multiplying the ink cartridges buy 6.


ok drop the six then :) two to one and I give in !


You have replaced all cartridges individually. You used 593 15 canadian dollar (assuming) cartgidges. Right? So you used 593*15=8895 dollars for ink only :shock:


yep



But then you printed 18803 4*6 and 21809 A4.

Let's translate this to A4 prints. Area of 4*6 is 24 square inches. Area of A4 is 7*11=77 sq inches.

18803 over X (x being the # of A4 prints) = 77/24

X = (18803*24)/77 = 5860 A4 prints

So you printed a total of 21809 + 5860 = 27669



ahhh the A4 are letters as in sheets of normal A4 paper with text on them and so cant really be said to be the same ink usage as the 4x6 prints - they used considerably less ink that the photo prints since there was a dedicated printer doing the letters.

to give an upper limit (on cost) could just say roughly 6000 A4 photo prints

So would give 8895 / 6000 = 1.48 per A4 photo print, for ink costs only.


Can you explain why you multiply that number by 6 in the end?

cause i am old and confused :)

[eric1]

all included with Canon top of the line pro paper... 8x10= $1.80USD.