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All appeared clear to me. I reckoned on 6 logos per sheet of A4. Hence 100 sheets. But if way are saying 300 sheets then I'll add £32 to my estimate
Hence £112 for ink and paper.

Janners

JMugs;47802 wrote:All appeared clear to me. I reckoned on 6 logos per sheet of A4. Hence 100 sheets. But if way are saying 300 sheets then I'll add £32 to my estimate
Hence £112 for ink and paper.

Janners

yes we were hoping but with a bleed area it just doesnt fit.

Sounds like a good way of making a simple job comlicated, i just allow £2 per A4 sheet for ink and paper, e.g 3 mugs to a sheet works out 65p per mug + 80p for the mug, total £1.45. If i had to worry about a few quid for ink and paper, then i'd find another job, ink and paper costs are not even worth bothering about, if you are getting a good price for the job in the first place.

You know what. I think I'll keep what I have found to myself. The post was aimed to help people but its just not worth it. I despair.

GSTK,
please don't dispair, please share what you have found out, pricing big jobs is always difficult, I tend to price time, almost ignor material cost, but I don't know what I am missing. what do you think?

I'd be interested to hear, not that I use a Ricoh or Sawgrass ink, but I tried doing cartidge weighing a while back to work out my costs per print, but in the end figured my scales weren't accurate enough for the small changes in weight in the cartridges.

gstk;47839 wrote:You know what. I think I'll keep what I have found to myself. The post was aimed to help people but its just not worth it. I despair.

LOL, at least some of us tried to work out an answer whether we owned the Ricoh or not. Trouble is we all can research that a cartridge contains 29ml of ink and costs £48 making it £1.66 per ml. The issue is knowing how much ink the printer uses per page at the amount of coverage stated.

Researching further would suggest it is agreed that the cost for the ink per sheet is 25c based on a cartridge costing $68.50 which is equivalent (at a uk price of £48 a cartridge) of 17.5p per sheet for ink alone. Therefore if we ignore all other costs the ink alone should cost £52.50.

I therefore now believe that you might have asked this question having gotten exactly 300 sheets out of a single cartridge

This job is all black, so does this mean it will use about 1 cart of black, - will the printer print CMYK black - so will also use up 1 each of the other carts too ?

WorthDoingRight;47850 wrote:LOL, at least some of us tried to work out an answer whether we owned the Ricoh or not. Trouble is we all can research that a cartridge contains 29ml of ink and costs £48 making it £1.66 per ml. The issue is knowing how much ink the printer uses per page at the amount of coverage stated.

Researching further would suggest it is agreed that the cost for the ink per sheet is 25c based on a cartridge costing $68.50 which is equivalent (at a uk price of £48 a cartridge) of 17.5p per sheet for ink alone. Therefore if we ignore all other costs the ink alone should cost £52.50.

I therefore now believe that you might have asked this question having gotten exactly 300 sheets out of a single cartridge

Well I will say research is categorically flawed. As they say don't believe what you read. A lot of people will be working at a loss

Put us out of our misery , please.