Cost per print - what's yours?

Last year I made be-spoke callanders for the familly. These cost me:

£1.29 per A4 page. + binding

Photo paper (jessops satin) £0.34 / page
HP inkjet cartraige N0.57 £0.50 / page
HP inkjet cartraige N0.58 £0.45 / page

Printed on a HP Photosmart 7760.

The Hp Premium Plus Photo Paper is 0.85 EUR per A4 sheet locally. And the most frequently replaced cartridges for the HP D7360 contain only 5.5-6.0 ml of ink. Moreover, I regularly print with the Best setting (one step down from top quality) and up to now, most of my prints have been rather low-key.

No wonder they come expensive.

But I do not regret switching from lab to home printing. The control I now have over the output (color consistency, finetuning, cropping to format, borders, immediate results) is worth the cost for me - even if it turns out to be twice as high as the lab prints I have never been quite happy with.

nwa2 wrote in post #5025461
Last year I made be-spoke callanders for the familly. These cost me:

£1.29 per A4 page. + binding

Photo paper (jessops satin) £0.34 / page
HP inkjet cartraige N0.57 £0.50 / page
HP inkjet cartraige N0.58 £0.45 / page

Printed on a HP Photosmart 7760.

This is just the sort of information I was looking for. My costs of 60p for inkand about 30p for paper makes my printing costs seem reasonable then. I was always under the impression that HP printers were more expensive to run than Canon, and it seems that is the case. Thanks for your reply.