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More info?)
I know everyone is just using this for comparison's sake but the 850 uses
the "solid ink blocks" & not any sort of cartridge.
Each block looks a little like one of those vermin killing blocks. The
machine holds about 3 or 4 of each colour & you can pop one in even in the
middle of a print job.
Another comment was about the extreme useage of "ink" or more to the
point... wax. That is right & it pays NEVER to turn off the machine. It goes
into standby mode & only uses about 60watts which will cost you much less
that wasting a heap of wax each time you start it from "cold".
For curiosities sake I tried to monitor the useage for you JH, but it is
really hard to do.
The machine works like this.........
First you have the blocks lined up with a heater plate at the end of them.
This plate only works ocassionly to top up a resevior inside the "head"
part.
I measured each colour down to the last mili-metre & started printing.
After 10 pages I had used NO colour but 7mm of black.
After another 20 pages I had used no more black but had used 7mm of cyan.
After another 30 pages I only used the remaining two colours.
In other words it only uses some of the solid blocks just to top up the
resevoir. Not sure if I explained it properly but I tried.
To get an acurate idea you need to write down the number of print copies the
machine has done & keep a GOOD record of blocks used & pages printed for
5000 or 10000 pages & then work it out on averages.
By the way JH, what are you using for design etc? Publisher?
If you like you can send me a copy of the colour page & I might be able to
give you a better idea because that lady I got the 850 for is about to do a
big job similar to yours & I told her to keep a record of ink useage.
Just take one of the @'s out... bruce9950@@hotmail.com
BruceM
"Povl H. Pedersen" <povlhp@povl-h-pedersens-computer.local> wrote in message
news:slrncqjioq.1he.povlhp@povl-h-pedersens-computer.local...
> In article <sK9qd.1630$i34.512@newsfe2-win.ntli.net>, JH wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm considering purchasing a TEKTRONIX PHASER 850 to print booklets. I
> > have assessed the costs to be very good for black and white printing,
> > but our booklets have a full colour cover which concerns me a little
> > cost wise.
> >
> > The booklets are A5 size, so half of an A4 sheet is full colour. The
> > back of the booklet will have some colour on but not very much.
> >
> > I am aware that page life of cartridges is messaged on 5% coverage. So
> > in other words what I'm asking is will a colour cartridge with a 1000
> > page life run out extremely quickly if I print 850 A4 sheets with half
> > colour? How many cartridges would I go through?
>
> You can look at the data for a Canon Pixma ip4000:
> 440 pages at 5% coverage per ink tank¹
> Cyan: 550 pages, Magenta: 430 pages,
> Yellow: 360 pages (Printing ISO/JIS-SCID N5)¹
>
> So if you do not have individual toners, the yellow will die
> way before the cyan.
>
> Looking here you can get an idea about how the picture looks:
>
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=iso+scid&btnG=Search
>
> And it has way more white than a normal picture.
>
> Generally, expect color to cost at least 3-4 times price of b/w.
>
> --
> Povl H. Pedersen - NoSpam@my.terminal.dk (yes - it works)
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