NOTE: These figures are averages drawn from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2013 Annual Report Expenditures on Children by Families. (PDF) College costs assume four years of college, and are averages drawn from the report Trends in College Pricing: 2013, (PDF) compiled by The College Board.
Printer ink, the simple black liquid that people have been using for centuries. How much does Ink really cost? Weâll take an HP 564 black cartridge. This particular cartridge can hold 12 ML of ink. OEM priced at $12.99, we can factor that the ink inside is worth 92 cents per ML.
Our sample cheap printer is the $70 Canon Pixma MG2120. Not surprisingly, its ink costs are high: 6.3 cents per page for plain text documents and 14 cents per page for color printouts. Our sample expensive printer is the $300 HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus e-All-in-One Printer.Its ink cost for black pages is just 1.6 cents per page; and for four-color pages, 7.2 cents per page.ot surprisingly, its ink costs are high: 6.3 cents per page for plain text documents and 14 cents per page for color printouts. Our sample expensive printer is the $300 HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus e-All-in-One Printer.