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So they say there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.  I’m here to truthfully tell you what to look for when pricing supplies for your office machines.  You do check the cost of supplies before purchasing your office machines, right?

The office machine industry standard for assistance in determining an apples to apples comparison in regards to ink/toner quantity is 5% coverage.  5% coverage is roughly equal to one letter size page of text.  Few people will ever actually print routinely at 5% coverage, most will print somewhere around that number.  Consider that most full page photographs are getting much closer to the 100% coverage for each ink/toner cartridge.  What does that mean?  It means that the small price difference of a few cents for each page you discovered when comparing inks/toners to each other is not closer to 20 times the difference.

Say what?!?

If toner #1 costs you $0.021 per page, and toner #2 costs you $0.026 per page you might not care.  Multiply that by 20 (5% = 100%/20) and you get a difference of  a dime.  No big deal right?  Until you print more than one page.  Then suddenly, the multiplier shows up.  Ten pages turn into a dollar.  100 pages turns into a few cups of joe.  A few thousand pages turns into a car payment.

The solution is simple.  Do your math before you buy an office machine, or have Doc Jams do the math for you.