Cutting costs, one printer at a time

Your printer is wasting more than $300 million a year in taxpayer dollars. Well, yours and a bunch of other ones.

The General Services Administration thinks it can recoup that money — and more — by changing the way the government buys and uses printers, copiers and fax machines.

Scheduled to begin in fiscal 2011, this governmentwide [...]

HP Printer Ink Costs Almost Twice as Much as Human Blood

We knew printer ink was expensive, we just never bothered to put it into perspective before. And now we don’t have to, because somebody else already did, and the comparisons are pretty eye-popping.

In a graphic comparing the “relative price of different liquids,” a single mL of HP black ink #45 runs about $0.70. That’s nearly [...]

PrePeat rewritable printer lets you undo print jobs, no ink or toner used

Inkless / tonerless printers aren’t exactly new, but here’s a more novel approach: inkless, tonerless, and completely reusable. The PrePeat rewritable printer is exactly that: using special paper made of PET plastic, you can make all the flowcharts and meeting notes you need, and when you want to start fresh, feed the paper back in [...]

Price war means laser printers are almost as cheap as inkjets

THE first laser printer Doubleclick ever acquired was an Apple LaserWriter. It weighed a ton, was deadly slow by modern standards, and cost in 1987 a mind-shattering $13,000: more than an average car at the time.

Doubleclick didn’t happen to have 13 grand lying around, but we really wanted that printer, since it, along with [...]

Buying a printer: fact vs. fiction

Unfortunately, connecting those dots isn’t always so easy. That’s because the printer market is rife with conventional wisdom that isn’t always wise at all. Here are a few of the most common printer myths and my take on whether or not they’re really true.

Inkjets do a bad job with text

Not true. Most inkjets print perfectly [...]