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Express the costs of consumables (over $12,100) to operate printer services offered for free to Chem majors, over a period of 1.5 years. Does not include the cost of the $2.5K printer itself. |
Current status, July 2014
Decision to continue not to account for use by student, much less meter use. But still managing to save ~$1,000/ year through two main changes:
(1) During the summer 2014, Michael Hint bought a $1,925.22 printer for $256.56.
- Did this through loyalty rebate ($1,443.91) and trade-in ($224.75) of (old, broken Abruna) printer to Xerox.
- Did not buy the extra warranty (~$500 more?), since under Eastern service contract.
- This gives Lars to Xerox color printers. This new printer displaced a B&W HP printer, which went to Dan Lorey.
(2) We are now on Eastern service contract, so our consumables and service are fixed, and less.
- We were paying about 1.89 cents per page for ink and maintenance kit replacement, on average. So for 280,000 pages, that would be $5,292. Service only if under warranty (new printer). Otherwise, for old printer, pay directly.
- For the same volume, now we would have paid $3,850 (see below chart), a savings of $1,442.
| Type of printing | Eastern's charges, per page | Page counts As of 7/24/14 | Costs $ |
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| B&W, or little color | 0.7 cents | 200,000 | 1,400 |
| More color | 2.5 cents | 65,000 | 1,625 |
| Full color | 5.5 cents | 15,000 | 825 |
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Previous info, from Feb 2014
Summary
Consumables = (Ink + maintenance kits) + paper = $10,200 + $1,930 = $12,130 over 33 months.
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Data and analysis
Page counts | Dates | Count of | Avg pages per months | At 1.53 cents/ page, | At 0.36 cents/ page, | Cost for both |
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300,000 | May 2011 - Nov 2012 | 19 months | 15,000 pages /month | $4,585 | $1,080 | $5,670 |
240,000 | Dec 2012 - Feb 2014 | 14 months | 16,000 pages/ month | $3,665 | $865 | $4,530 |
Total: 540,000 | May 2011 - Feb 2014 | 33 months | 15,430 pages/ month | $8,250 | $1,945 | $10,200 |
Hardware costs, including "consumable" maintenance kits
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Usage Dec 2012 - Feb 2014
Ink Stick color | Use | 6 Sticks per package | Cost per package | Total costs |
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Cyan | 28 | 4.67 | $69.65 | $325.26 |
Magenta | 24 | 4.00 | $69.65 | $278.60 |
Yellow | 22 | 3.67 | $69.65 | $255.62 |
Black | 76 | 12.67 | $221.40 | $2,805.14 |
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| Total ink costs for 240K pages: | $3,665 |
- $3,665 for 240,000 pages comes to 1.53 cents per page, on average.
- Thus, estimate that an additional 300,000 pages used previously (1.25 as much again) would cost about $4,585.
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