Re: 870/1270 / too many models - a question

["John Mills" <jon1@weink.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>For those wondering:

The Epson 1270 cartridges has 5 chambers in which each is filled with 14 ml
of ink.

There is approximatly 3782.4 ml per gallon.

The total cost per color in the 1270 color cartridges ( based on an average
cost of about $22.00 per cartridge)

is about $1189.00 per gallon per color.

Thus a 5 color cartridge has the equivalent cost of $5944.00 if one were to
buy enough cartridges to make 1 gallon of ink for each color.

$5944.00 is equal to about 270 cartridges at $22.00 per cartridge.

If the average user gets about 30 prints per cartridge (full photographic A3
size images) Then $5944.00 allows for about 8100 prints.

Thus the cost of the 5 color cartridge per page is about $0.73.

I did not include the black cartridge cost, printer depreciation (The
printers are good for about 10,000 prints), cost of paper, or labor.

This is a fast and dirty calculation as the cartridges don't always sell for
$22.00 everywhere, The entire 14 ml of ink is not used, and I erred
conservatively based on reports through this list on the actual page yield
of the cartridges.

John Mills
support@weink.com
http://www.weink.com/






----- Original Message -----
From: "Editor - P.O.V. Image Service" <editor@p-o-v-image.com>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: 870/1270 / too many models - a question


> Jerry Olson wrote:
>
> > I believe the epson inks are more like $12000 a gallon. I figured it out
> > once, assuming their average cartridge actually has 1/2 ounce of USEABLE
> > ink in it...
> >
>
> Somebody want to try and guesstimate an average ink capacity and
cost/gallon for
> the 1270 inks...?
>
> Would be a nice little piece of info to have in discussing the issue of
the flawed
> ink and chipped cartridges  with the press.
>


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