Steve, I remember talking to the sales rep about that printer at the Mobility conference. It is so new I don't think anyone has any non-sales information on it. If it does what it says, then it looks like a great option.

I would also check with The Top Floor, or other vendors about printer service contract solutions. I am on a Xerox one and I just pay a flat fee per-print (similar to copier contracts), and when I need toner they just send me a new one, at no cost. At FHU we standardized on the Xerox 6500 Color laser series (we already had some when I came on board). I have them set so that by default they print in B/W and if someone wants color they need to go into the properties and manually change the setting before they print.

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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Steve Ligett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thanks for all your replies. I will do what I can to reduce color printing, and turn off the ability to print multiple copies on the printers, excepting the copier. I should note that the inkjet printer I am looking at uses ink that costs about 1.25 cents per page for b/w, and 6.5 cents per page for color. (At market pricing for the cartridges and the 5% coverage standard. The black cartridge is rated for 9200 pages -- it's not the same thing as a desktop printer cartridge.)

Oh, and I'll show all teachers how to scan to email - then they could share the scanned document rather than print copies for all.

steve

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Steve Ligett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi - I'm looking at my supplies budget for next year. Yikes. It's large, and it's largely toner for laser printers. (Paper is in another budget.) Ok, we need to reduce printing. But I also want to reduce the price per page. We're using 3rd party toner for all but one of our printers. I could go to self-refill to trim that cost. Anyone doing that?

Or I could try inkjet. HP has inkjets with "page-wide" heads that they say are fast, as good as laser, and less expensive per page. Anyone using those?

How are you reducing your supplies costs?

thanks,
steve

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