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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 7683462" data-attributes="member: 50895">Yeah, well in my experience having run a digital print studio for 20 years, that the printers that cost more money have a much lower cost per copy, than those really cheap printers. Its a difference of 20 cents for full color print on the pro printer vs. $2.00 a copy on the cheap home printer. For what you're going to pay for &quot;ink&quot; (or plastic in the case of 3D), the printer company should be able to give you the printer for free. Cheaper cost of equipment does not equate cheaper cost to print, in fact, its the other way around - cheaper the printer, the more expensive the print. Whenever I find a printer for $100, I look to see where I can find the $1000 printer, because in the long run the $1000 printer will save me money - and I've spent as much as $15,000 for a printer, and that's just for inkjet.Look at it this way, a $1500 laser printer printing 10,000 B/W prints cost $250 to print and being able to do 300 more jobs like it in the same year without a problem, whereas as a $100 laser, 10,000 B/W prints will cost $2500, and will probably be too worn out to do that again even one more time without breaking. I'd rather spend $1750 for a nice laser that can do one long run of prints on the very first job of many, versus spending $2600 for the same thing on the cheap printer and I can't use it again. Cheap printers aren't cheap at all, that's a lie, they are far more expensive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 7683462, member: 50895"] Yeah, well in my experience having run a digital print studio for 20 years, that the printers that cost more money have a much lower cost per copy, than those really cheap printers. Its a difference of 20 cents for full color print on the pro printer vs. $2.00 a copy on the cheap home printer. For what you're going to pay for "ink" (or plastic in the case of 3D), the printer company should be able to give you the printer for free. Cheaper cost of equipment does not equate cheaper cost to print, in fact, its the other way around - cheaper the printer, the more expensive the print. Whenever I find a printer for $100, I look to see where I can find the $1000 printer, because in the long run the $1000 printer will save me money - and I've spent as much as $15,000 for a printer, and that's just for inkjet. Look at it this way, a $1500 laser printer printing 10,000 B/W prints cost $250 to print and being able to do 300 more jobs like it in the same year without a problem, whereas as a $100 laser, 10,000 B/W prints will cost $2500, and will probably be too worn out to do that again even one more time without breaking. I'd rather spend $1750 for a nice laser that can do one long run of prints on the very first job of many, versus spending $2600 for the same thing on the cheap printer and I can't use it again. Cheap printers aren't cheap at all, that's a lie, they are far more expensive. [/QUOTE]

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