Recycling Times Magazine
Just a Minute David Gibbons
Tell them YOUR Top 10 Printer List I was interested to read what PC Magazine considered to be the Top 10 Printers. Consumers wanting to purchase a printer for home or the office are faced with a huge dilemma. They have a tough time trying to work through all the hype to know what to buy. And of course a young person wanting to print some photos at home has different needs to the office manager who has two monochrome printers on each floor of the office for 80 employees. So that’s why PC Magazine published a list this month of what they consider to be the top 10. They tested hundreds of printers, from the cheapest inkjets to the priciest workhorse lasers in their own PC Mag Lab. I was not surprised that eight printers are laser, and just two, are inkjet. Black and white printers, or monochrome, are the cheapest to run—costing between 1.2c and 3.2c per page. Inkjet printers are much more expensive to run
at 10-19 cents per page—important information for consumers who often don’t think past the cost of the purchase of the printer itself. So
often the cheapest printer you will buy, may cost you the most to run on ink. BUT I did find other results to be interesting. HP has three, and Brother also has 3 printers in the top 10 list. And the second largest printer
manufacturer in the world, Canon, has no printers on the list! Another big surprise: a Kodak inkjet at $69 is there (the cheapest printer in the list) and yet according to Kodak’s recent announcement, they are getting out of inkjet printing. Hmmm. But this got me thinking. You would have a top 10 list of your own. You know what will work best for consumers. Why not publish that list on your website, or on a leaflet? Give consumers some help. Let them know they can get the best support—from you.
Read the full list of PC Magazine’s Top 10 printers.
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