Tracking the Cost of Printing with an Epson 4800

By: Mark Segal
Note to readers:Calculations in this article are done in Canadian dollars.At the time of publication the exchange rate to the U.S. dollar is approximately 1.15X.In other words, a Canadian dollar is worth about 87 cents U.S.
Readers of myprevious essaywill be familiar with the model I developed to track the costs of printing with an Epson 4000. On November 1, 2005 I took delivery of the new Epson 4800 and restarted the same model for tracking the cost of using it. Almost four months later and with about 1,300 "Standard Prints" (SP)- 54 square inches of image on Epson Enhanced Matte paper– under its belt, I am pleased to report that the 4800 is economically so much superior to the 4000 that anyone sitting on the fence wondering whether they should up-grade will find the information in this up-date of significant interest. For this essay, I developed a special add-on to the model which calculates the economic advantage of up-grading from the 4000 to the 4800 sooner r...