How to Calculate Printing per Sheet
One of the most important factors in purchasing a printer is its cost per printed page. The cost per printed page is one of the key factors in determining the total cost of ownership and gives you a general idea of how much you can expect to pay to produce your printed documents. You can compare the total cost of ownership against outsourcing your printer needs to make a decision on which would be most beneficial to you or your company. Cost per print will vary based on the coverage of the documents being printed. Due to that reason, manufacturers will use an average yield to help in your calculations.
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Find the price of the black toner for your printer and then divide by its yield. For the Xerox ColorQube 8870 color printer, the black toner costs $259.99 and should yield 16,700 pages at 5 percent coverage. The price comes out to $0.0156 per page.
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Calculate the cost per print per color cartridge by dividing the cost by the yield. The Xerox 8870 prices color cartridges at $89.99 and estimates yield at 17,300 prints at 5 percent coverage. There are 3 different color cartridges. This comes out to $0.0052 per color, or $0.0156 for all 3 colors combined.
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Calculate the cost per print for the maintenance kit by dividing the cost by the yield. For the ColorQube 8870 the cost for an extended capacity maintenance kit is $99.99 and should last 30,000 prints. This comes out to $0.0033.
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Add up all the calculations you have up to this point. For the Xerox CQ8870, the results would come out to:
Black cost per print: $0.0156
Color cost per print: $0.0156
Maintenance kit cost per print: $0.0033
Total cost per print: $0.0345 or 3.5 cents per print.
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Tips & Warnings
If you wish to calculate based on personal coverage, reduce your yield by half every time your coverage doubles. For the CQ8870 if you were doing 20 percent coverage in black your yield would be 4,175 pages. Then recalculate your cost per print by dividing cost by yield. In this case, your black per-page cost would jump to $0.0622 or 6.2 cents.
