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Sorry, it is off-topic but appreciate if somone can give me info about the
laser printer:
I am interested in buying a color laser printer.
In the following page yields:
Black cartridge - 2000 pages
Cyan cartridge - 1000 pages
Yellow cartridge - 1000 pages
Magenta cartridge - 1000 pages

Please correct me if I am wrong:
''Theorectically", if I print 5% coverage for Black only, Cyan only, Yellow
only and Magenta only, then it will print 5000 pages for me in total?
 
Alan T said:
Sorry, it is off-topic but appreciate if somone can give me info about the
laser printer:
I am interested in buying a color laser printer.
In the following page yields:
Black cartridge - 2000 pages
Cyan cartridge - 1000 pages
Yellow cartridge - 1000 pages
Magenta cartridge - 1000 pages

Please correct me if I am wrong:
''Theorectically", if I print 5% coverage for Black only, Cyan only,
Yellow
only and Magenta only, then it will print 5000 pages for me in total?
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Not really. Depends on how the toner cartridges are used.

I have an Oki page printer and each of the cartridges are normally good for
5000 pages each. With the way I use the printer, I get about 5 - 6000 pages
from each color.

The only way you would get your 2000, 1000 X 3 is if you printed pure
colors (the exact color that each cartridge has in it for 2000 pages black,
1000 of each of the other three colors.) Any color variation will use some
of the color out of two or more cartridges so you may actually get 1000
pages of 5% coverage before you needed to replace all three color
cartridges.
 
The only way you would get your 2000, 1000 X 3 is if you printed pure
colors (the exact color that each cartridge has in it for 2000 pages black,
1000 of each of the other three colors.) Any color variation will use some
of the color out of two or more cartridges so you may actually get 1000
pages of 5% coverage before you needed to replace all three color
cartridges.
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Thanks for your explanation. I understand more.

What do you think in general/average the number of pages in my cartridges
how many color pages will be printed from them?
(2000 + 3000)/2 ?
 
Alan T said:
Thanks for your explanation. I understand more.

What do you think in general/average the number of pages in my cartridges
how many color pages will be printed from them?
(2000 + 3000)/2 ?
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Many printers will not print if any cartridge is empty whether the image
requires the same or not.
Those figures are just guesses anyway.
Jim
 
Alan said:
Sorry, it is off-topic but appreciate if somone can
give
me info about the laser printer:
I am interested in buying a color laser printer.
In the following page yields:
Black cartridge - 2000 pages
Cyan cartridge - 1000 pages
Yellow cartridge - 1000 pages
Magenta cartridge - 1000 pages

Please correct me if I am wrong:
''Theorectically", if I print 5% coverage for Black
only,
Cyan only, Yellow only and Magenta only, then it will
print 5000 pages for me in total?
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No. Assuming they're all rated at 5% coverage and you
print 5% coverage of each color on each page, you'll
run out of colors at 1,000 pages and black at 2,000
pages.
In addition, you'll seldom really print with any of
those purely; there will always be combinations used in
order to create the rest of hte colors in your images.
So the above assumes an unreal situation.
Those numbers are also not perfect; they're simple
guesses at best.

Then you have your toner drum on top of those to
consider.

It's still a lot cheaper than inkjets, though. And
faster, and no nozzles to dry out, etc.. Lasers cost
more to buy but less to operate though neither is
cheap.
 
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