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jzucker wrote:
chez, have you used the 3rd party color inks? 'nuff said.
Nope, had no reason to look at 3rd party colour inks. Here is why.
Just before Christmas I sold 2 of my canvas prints for $1200 ( 60"x40" ). I use a HP Z3100 printer which keeps track of how much ink is used per print. I used a total of 60.55 ml of ink on those two prints. I get my ink for $0.44 / ml so the total cost in ink for the 2 prints was $26.64 which is only 2.2% of the price I got for the prints. If I was really concerned about this cost, I could have raised the price of my prints by another $50 to cover this cost.
Going to a 3rd party ink, even if it saves half the cost, is peanuts in the big scheme of things. I will not experiment with 3rd party inks only to get bitten 5 years down the road when my customers prints start to fade or change colour. Not worth the risk to save a few pennies.
Other people who print should figure out their own costs and see if it is really worth experimenting to save some money. Maybe in some cases it is worth it, but you really need to do some calculations before jumping in.
As a side note, my paper cost was $78, 3 times the cost of the ink.
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