Why would you buy this? The cost of a new printer (with cartriges) is $299. Some one explain the math to me. I am baffled.
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Ok, I see this style of comment a lot, and I can explain this. Stock printer that "comes with toner" is really about half empty (in this case about 600 pages). Cost $300/ 600 Pages, or $0.50/page Regular yield toner costs $240 but lasts for about 1200 pages, so about $0.20/pageThese are high yield toners at $300 but will print about 2200 pages, which comes out to $0.14/pageSo, new printer that comes with toner is over 3.5 times more expensive per page. By the way, I have owned Samsung, Lexmark, HP, and Brother printers, some inkjet and some laser and they all seem to follow this pattern. Ok, I see this style of comment a lot, and I can explain this. Stock printer that "comes with toner" is really about half empty (in this case about 600 pages). Cost $300/ 600 Pages, or $0.50/page Regular yield toner costs $240 but lasts for about 1200 pages, so about $0.20/pageThese are high yield toners at $300 but will print about 2200 pages, which comes out to $0.14/pageSo, new printer that comes with toner is over 3.5 times more expensive per page. By the way, I have owned Samsung, Lexmark, HP, and Brother printers, some inkjet and... » Read More Ok, I see this style of comment a lot, and I can explain this. Stock printer that "comes with toner" is really about half empty (in this case about 600 pages). Cost $300/ 600 Pages, or $0.50/page Regular yield toner costs $240 but lasts for about 1200 pages, so about $0.20/pageThese are high yield toners at $300 but will print about 2200 pages, which comes out to $0.14/pageSo, new printer that comes with toner is over 3.5 times more expensive per page. By the way, I have owned Samsung, Lexmark, HP, and Brother printers, some inkjet and some laser and they all seem to follow this pattern. « Show Less
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It's the case of pay me now or pay me later. Printers are underpriced and supplies are overpriced. You need to calculate your per copy cost based on projected usage.
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Depends on two things: 1) How expense (or cheap) was the purchase price originally; and most important, 2) are you happy with the performance of your printer? If everything is working fine and you are happy it is worth the cost. If you really want a better printer or a printer with different abilities and your present printer is a few years old, and you find a new printer that is a great buy with new features YOU WILL USE then save the printhead money go new!
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the lowest I've seen it has been $529 and now its back up to $ 719.00the crazy thing is the MSRP is $699 on the brother website. I love amazon but this is just weird. Anyone had luck refilling the toner on this thing? I'm looking for a cheaper refill than my lexmark C534
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We did not have a lot of luck with the Zebra... It's actually in the box still in my desk... If you want it - we'd sell it for $80.00...It seems to me that you need some programming knowledge to use the unit the way we had envisioned... The printer works well - the set up just isn't as easy / "plug and play" as hoped...We have a new unit if you would like it. We could ship it tomorrow and would take a paypal payment.Thanks for your inquiry.Best,Rich HammMidwest Wheelcoaters219-874-0099
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Hi Mary! Well, the printer arrived today and I was quite pleased with how easy it was to set up. I've only printed a copy of an old photograph (on cheap paper ... you're not suppose to do that but that's all I had available) and it turned out well. It's much quieter than the HP printer I have but don't use, simple to load and $200 less expensive. Once I get a chance to play around with it more I'll update my opinion on it ... wish I could help you more, but I haven't had it long enough. Lia
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Try a search at http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Printers/ and enter your new model number. The price for the 4-pack of 564XL cartridges is about $84 at the HP SureSupply site.
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According to Epson.com, the regular price of this printer is $199.99. I am disappointed in Amazon advertising this at $279.99 as MSRP and then showing a great deal of $174.99. NOT!! Epson has a $50 instant rebate bringing the price to $149.99 and with free shipping. What's up Amazon?
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This is the value it will cover. In my opinion if your printer is valued at $179 than you should have a value plan that reflects that amount!
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If you buy this printer, you may pay $60/every 2 week.I'm serious. So I rebuy Brother printer.
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The printer has a built in densitometer, so creating profiles for a new paper type is just a matter of a few mouse-clicks and waiting 20 minutes or so. You can buy non-HP inks from several sources, and they work pretty well, but I do gallery-quality prints that sell for &gt;$1000, so for me at least, skimping on ink would be foolish. (Note that, depending on how much printing you're doing, you may elect to buy smaller, 130ml ink cartridges rather than the 300 ml cartridges that are standard.)
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Personally, I think ALL inkjet printers "ink value" is a huge rip off. This printer seems to be average in ink usage compared to all the others I have ever had. I also have a HP Officejet Pro 8000 and both seem to use about the same amount of ink per cartridge. This 7610 is a decent value compared to other printers. No better or worse.
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Hello!While I can't speak for everyone, we have had an awesome experience with this refill! We are on our second refill & the printer's performance is fine (as it has been performing we purchased ir). I can't imagine ever buying two ink cartridges for the price of a printer again. Hope this helps. :)
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Don't forget you need 4 color cartridges (black, yellow, cyan and magenta) 4 x $14. Don't think that the cost per page is much different between Canon and HP.
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You get a small cartridge that can print about 300 to 400 pages (not images or dense text). This can later be replaced with a full sized cartridge that will get you over 2,000 pages easily. The cost for a replacement used cartridge is currently $NZ76 - you local price may vary considerably. I still think this is much better value than an ink jet printer, plus the quality is sharper, though you lose the impact of color. One thing I learned is that when installing a printer, you have to disable all antivirus software, otherwise problems ensue.
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I have an old, 2001 era HP printer. Back then, there were no "chips" inside of print cartridges to track how many copies had been made so my cartridges refill with no problem. The print-heads are built into the cartridges so, when print quality fails, I put in a new cartridge which gives me a new print-head. Until I get a failure I refill, refill, refill. Printer makers don't want customers refilling cartridges because a big part of the profit is in replacement cartridges. So, many (possibly most) of the new machines use cartridges that stop working after the in-the-cartridge memory chip says the cartridge has produced the designed number of copies, even if the cartridge still has ink. We dumped a relatively new Cannon printer because the cost of replacing half-full cartridges exceeded the cost of buying a new printer. Based on a "cost-per-copy" rating in Consumer Reports, we bought a newer model HP and tried having the cartridges commercially refilled. That resulted in a plugged-up "print-head" that we had to replace, at a cost of about $60. It seems that printer makers discovered they could make cartridges less costly for them if they made the print-head a separate component. If your machine has separate and costly to replace print-heads, you might want to be cautious. If the print-heads are built into the cartridge, then you have little to lose refilling a cartridge you were going to throw away and then seeing how it works.
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I purchased them because my printer costs more then if I just purchase the print heads. I say just get the print heads cause you know what you have and the way that printers are made they are not lasting as long as they should.
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you can get the ink for about $13-14.00... from what i have seen it is not much cheaper than that even if you buy a whole pack of the inks. I know costco has ink refilling service in my area, and am hoping they will make that available but only the 221 inks are, which cost about 8.00 for black and color inks. hope this helps :)