My New Printer

Printer

On Monday my printer ran out of ink. It was very expensive to replace cartridges and even using third party ink was breaking the bank to the tune of about 120,000 to 150,000 a year. I’d been waiting for the ink to run out, but was hoping it would last to the end of the semester. It was time to replace the printer with a cheaper option. I got a HP C6180 which is a printer, scanner, copier, fax combo unit. This cost me 300,000, but is well worth the expense as it will be infinitely cheaper on ink.

I got a kit conversion done at the shop which ends up with an external ink solution as you can see in the picture below. Each of the ink tubes holds a little more than 100ml of ink. With my old printer it was closer to 30ml for each cartridge and the cost to replace was 30,000 for black and 20,000 for each color. Well now 100ml only costs 5,000

to refill - that works out to about 5% of the cost on ink. A friend of mine has had this exact same printer for about 10 months and prints like he’s running a publishing house and only just this week bought an ink refill. Clearly a cheaper solution.