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Dell pushes Total Cost of Printing with inkjet AiOs through the roof!
Monday, September 29th, 2008 - Posted in Supplies, Hardware, New Products, Pricing, Comparisons, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »Issue #0830/1 – In launching its new range of branded (but Lexmark-built) inkjet All-in-One printers, Dell has increased Total Cost of Printing to completely eliminate all the cost advantage it was so proud to claim when the company first introduced its own brand printer range. We check current costs of the new models against previous models and also against equivalent Lexmark devices.
Both Dell and Lexmark adjust pricing strategies in Europe – in opposite directions!
Monday, September 29th, 2008 - Posted in Strategy, Supplies, Pricing, Comparisons, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »Issue 0830/2 – We’ve seen in the article "Dell pushes Total Cost of Printing with inkjet AiOs through the roof!" that Dell is no longer a low-cost inkjet printing option but how does this vary from country to country? We’ve checked Europe out for pricing variation on one of the latest Dell All-in-One inkjet printers and compared what we’ve found against the pricing of a Lexmark model.
Entry-level Mono Laser MFPs - Nominal CPP is much better indicator of TCP than purchase price
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 - Posted in Supplies, Hardware, Printer Market, New Products, Special Offers, Comparisons, Pricing, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »Issue #0829/1 – While special offers can put mono laser MFP functionality in the hands of small business or home users for less than £50 including tax in the UK (see "Laser multifunction for less than £50 – including tax!"), the Total Cost of Printing using that machine in no way reflects the value of the low cost of accessibility to the technology. In this article we expand the product group to include the next strata of mono laser MFPs as we consider what implications there are in buying a cheap machine against buying the lowest Total Cost of Printing.