TCPglobal - news, views and issues on total cost of printing

Issue #0706/1 - With inkjet All-in-One machines selling is large numbers, we took an opportunity towards the end of 2006 to test several examples of this category for cartridge yield, including Cost of Printing, performance and print quality.

Issue #0706/2 - Users risk spending nearly three times the amount they need to for their home photographs if they choose the wrong AiO/printer and could lose as much as 59% of their ink.

Issue #0705/1 - Just a few pages a day or a busy office? Is laser the right choice and, if so, which of the ultra low-end sub-£250 colour laser printers is the most economical for the amount of colour you will print?

Issue #0705/2 - Bullet points outline the two most expensive devices in the group and the two most economical for which types of user.

• As we consider what this means overall, firstly we cannot ignore the fact that, to the user on the street, unless the nature of the printed material categorically demands laser output instead of ink output, the Hewlett-Packard Officejet Pro K550 is completely unchallenged on economy – by a very big margin.

Issue #0704/1 - Kyocera Mita’s new A3 colour laser printer is clearly a competent machine with lower Total Cost of Printing than its competitors but also has some strange characteristics.