One thing to consider is that you're pricing Epson Premium Glossy paper, one of the most expensive surfaces available from Epson, and you're pricing directly from the Epson website ... in other words, at retail list prices. Other choices at lower price abound. With the Oly P440, you don't have any choices other than the discount vendors pricing structure...
With the R2400, I'd estimate that after 100 8.5x11 inch prints I'll likely need to replace three-four of the eight ink carts, and by the time I hit 150 or so I'll likely cycle through an entire inkset. Some carts I always use faster than others. So let's look at the 100 sheet costs presuming a full, fresh inkset for simplicity. Epson Enhanced Matte (my standard paper) is $14 per 50 sheet box and ink carts are $13 apiece, so my price per print is US$0.80. Velvet Fine Art or Premium Glossy in the same size consumes about 20% more ink per page and the paper costs twice as much, so the price goes up to $1.20 per print. Alternatively, there are many third party papers for the Epson at both lower and higher prices too. And there are alternative, lower cost inks (but I never use anything but Epson K3 inks). Roll paper options reduce the paper cost again. Olympus P440 paper costs $75 for 100 sheets. The color ribbon kit for 50 sheets is roughly $40 depending upon whether you want matte or glossy finish. That comes to $1.55 per print, or almost twice as much as I spend for Epson Enhanced Matte cut-sheet prints and 30% more per print for Velvet Fine Art. All prices from B&H Photo' current website, http://www.bhphotovideo.com. Godfrey On Jul 3, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Bob W wrote: > The cost of paper and inks for the Epson R800 doesn't seem to be all > that different than for the Oly P440. I have assumed that one set of > inks would last for 100 A4 prints. Whether that is true or not I don't > know - my last lot would never have lasted that long - so the > consumables for the inkjet may turn out to cost more than those for > the dye-sub. > > According to the Epson site it would set me back £126- for a full set > of inks and 100 sheets of premium glossy A4, against £180- for the > P440 equivalents. Other dye-subs are a lot cheaper, and presumably I > could get the inkjet consumables more cheaply, but the difference > isn't as big as I expected. > > I wouldn't particularly mind about the lack of choices provided the > quality, cost etc. were ok. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
