4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
1:49 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Where are you getting those kind of prices from?
Generally CDW-G (educational and volume discounts probably help here).
We're paying over $2k for full set.
Even without any discounts, you should be paying well under $2k -- the
ink/printhead combo pack (C4990A through C4995A) runs around $300/color
pre-discount, and the ink three-pack (C5066A through C5071A) is just over
$500/color. That gives you a ink/printhead set at $1800, and ink-only at
a bit over $1k per set, and that's at list price.
Though if the 5500 is anything like the 1055CM's
(I'm more familiar with
them), you replace the printhead/cleaners far less frequently than the
ink.
Yup. I haven't had a printhead need to be replaced due to usage yet.
(They've just clogged on old ink...) Admittedly, we don't have very high
volume, though.
To try to bring this on topic..... I've got several (soon to be replaced)
on-topic PowerMacs printing to a 5500PS that has eight times the RAM, ten
times the drive space, and has a significantly faster processor than the
macs. (Oh, and the plotter has 100Mb ethernet) The 5500 does a very good
imatation of twiddling its thumbs and tapping its foot while waiting for a
job to finally finish arriving, and frequently spends less time actually
printing than it took to send the job.
--Ian