Buying The Right Printer, Cost Of Use Should Factor Into Decision Along With Purchase Price - CBS News

Buying The Right Printer, Cost Of Use Should Factor Into Decision Along With Purchase Price - CBS News: "I recently had a chance to try out two Hewlett Packard multi-function devices that serve as a printer as well as a scanner and copier. The DeskJet F380, which does a reasonably good job on all three functions, costs only $79 to buy, but a black ink cartridge (the ink people use the most) costs $15 and yields approximately 150 pages at a cost 10 cents per page. But if you were to spend $199 for HP’s soon-to-be-released higher end Photosmart C5180 multi-function device (MFD), you would not only get a faster and better printer, scanner and copier and but one that was substantially cheaper to use. Its black ink cartridges cost $18 but yield 480 pages at a cost of about 3.7 cents a page. "