“Estimated pages yield & ink volume? Why does a full complement of cartridges cost more than the printer (8100 Pro) itself?”
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Printers are relatively inexpensive to manufacture and last a long time before having to be replaced. Therefor profit for selling "expensive" printers is relatively low. You purchase an expensive printer and keep using it for 10 years and the manufacturer makes minimum profit. Ink Cartridges are very inexpensive to manufacture and are relatively quickly used up. There is almost no ink in them. The cost is mainly in the circuitry and that is likely $10 or less. Therefore, high cost ink makes sense. Sell the printer cheap. Sell the cartridges for a lot of money. Make a minor profit on the printer (or sell at a minor loss) but make a 50-75% profit on each cartridge. HP8100 Pro ink cartridges at $45 for 700 pages plus $40 for 700 pages of black means $85 for every 700 pages printed. A business could easily go through 700 pages in a day. Best of all if printing only black and white the machine won't run without the color cartridges in it. If any cartridge runs out the machine won't run. You have to purchase a 3-pack of color cartridges even if you need only one color. Profit is increased if you turn in your empty cartridges as most are reusable with just cheap ink added or by re-using the electronics on a new plastic ink case. You get a minor discount. Note that I have NO factual information on the costs of personnel, equipment, advertising, shipping, material for any printer made. Sort of like with the drug industry. The printer companies may have to charge an arm and a leg for ink cartridges to stay in business, but I doubt it. So, to answer your question in one word. Probably Profit. At least this is my evaluation of why it is cheaper to purchase a new printer then replace all the ink cartridges in your current one.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The same reason a years worth of food costs more than the fridge.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hello, I see that you are interested in knowing the page yield for the HP 951 ink. The Hp 951 ink yields Up to 700 pages for yellow, cyan, and magenta. Hopefully that helps you out, and thanks again for choosing HP.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Because HP wants smart shoppers to shop around and find a printer that has re-fillable ink cartridges. This is similar to what Microsoft is doing, not content with simply selling software, they now make you rent it month to month.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Printer manufacturers (HP, Lexmark, Epson, Brother, etc.) make their money off the consumables/ink/toner, not the device itself. Look at how much ink you typically put on a page, the cartridge yield is most always half of the documented yield because people cover the page with more ink than just 5%
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The price is decent for quality of ink and it's a 3 pack or you can buy separate colors as needed
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Because that is the way Printer manufacturers make money...to get you to buy the printer, then you need to buy the ink to run it.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The manufacturer makes the printer with very low levels of ink in the cartridges so that soon after purchasing the printer you will need to buy more cartridges. They keep the margins lower on the printer so that people will buy on the price of the printer. Soon after purchasing the printer you then find out why the cost of the printer was so low, the cost of replacing the ink Replacement ink is where the manufacturer is making higher margins on the product (they have you now hook line and sinker)
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Because they give almost give the printers away, they make the money on the ink refills.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.HP makes all the money selling you the ink. selling the printer cheap locks you into using their ink most of the time
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