PRINTING cost per disc

[keziah]

can any one tell me how many discs they get from their individual printer
cattridge. I am in the market for a dvd printer but i want to compare the cost of operation of the different printers in the market. i want to print in colour.
it is for my business so i want to use this imformation in my final decision.
if you own a colour dvd printer, primera,epson etc, thermal or injet.
Can you please list the make, the cost of refills and how many discs you
print per replacement of the ink or toner

thanx

[Tommyknocker]

I'm sorry, but my info is a little incomplete. Anyway, I use a Canon BJ240 Color Printer. I bought two cartridges about a year ago. I also bought three ink bottles for $21.00. I have refilled the cartridges about three times each, and my ink supply is still two-thirds full. So I would like to suggest no matter what system you get, look into refilling your cartridges yourself. The procedure pays for itself the first time you use it.

[overloaded_ide]

Yes refilling is the ONLY way to go!

I bought large bottles of ink, one each of all 4 colors about 4 Yrs ago, still using it (did not go bad) and I do tons of printing every day! Would have cost me thoughsands in cartriges by now. I was paying $21 for 3 color tanks and $7 for black for the printer I had back then. Now I use it in my I850 Canon. Been through 4 or 5 printers, but still same ink. I'll never ever by a HP consumer printer again though! Had 3, all junk! 636 and 656 type series!

Cartriges cost a fortune, but ink is cheap! I paid about $20 per bottle for my 4 and only the black is almost gone, got a 1/4 bottle of yellow, 1/2 and 3/4 of magenta and cyan left. So soon it will cost me $40 to replace 2 colors and print another 4 years and several printers
Compare that to $30 for one color cartrig and $20 for one black cartrig for something like an HP!

I know that's not what you asked, but since nearly any cartrig can be refilled that is what I recomend looking at. How easy can it be refilled!
By far the printer with the individual color tanks are best. Clear tanks like the Canon I 850 take are the best (though it's not a disk printer, just an example). The 3 color in one cartrig and a solid color plastic that you can not see through are by far the worst, HP and Lexmark type.
You never run out of all colors at the same time, and it's harder to refill without making a little mess when you can't see in the tank for ink level.

Also remember even if you are just going to buy new cartriges and not refill, you throw away about half your ink every time you replace an all in one type! You'll run out of one color but have plenty of the other 2 colors, but it's either throw it away or refill!

As for refilling, you don't have to do it all that often, not like a daily chore!
As much printing as we do here we refill about once in 2 weeks or sometimes once a month. Daughter is doing alot of full color 8x10 posters lattely.

So any time I look for any type of new printer, myself I look first at the quality of the printing. When I find those that meet my standards for the quality I need for that type printing I then look at the type tanks each has and how easy to refill. Then I look at the printing speeds.

I find a nice balance of those 3 factors and buy that printer.
I lucked out when I bought my Canon I 850 printer I use now. It had the best quality, was the fastest, and also the easiest to refill! It is used for everything except disks! Refilling the single color clear tanks are so easy even my wife and 12yr old daughter refill it!

That is what I would try to find in a disk printer, high quality printing and easy refills. And I would use the I 850 for everything other than disks for normall sizes.
I also have a epson 1520 wide format printer, though I have not done much printing with it yet, it has the 3 color type tank, but it is also easy to refill because you can see the ink level though the milky white plastic easily.