Have You Thought About Cheaper Color Prints?
It’s a little funny being in toner sales here in Denver sometimes. I get calls from people who are upset about toner prices from their retailers and are making the switch to us because we’re $5-$10 cheaper on a common toner cartridge. That makes sense: cost is important. However, what baffles me is the same customers who make the switch because of prices glaze over when I mention how much they could save by switching to a Xerox PagePack program. “Well,” they reason “I’ve already paid off this $2,400 HP color printer, so I’m really not interested in switching to a Xerox plan.” While that logic does make sense at first, what doesn’t make sense is the math! If the same customer uses color toner at high coverage, they will probably end up spending between $6,000 and $10,000 more over three years than they would with a Xerox PagePack plan (which allows for unlimited coverage for a fixed price per month)…including the printer! Here’s how the PagePack plan works: You pay a fixed price per color print no matter how much color you have on the page. This is extremely attractive to Realtors, who’s color house flyers are generally around [...] read more
HP Toner: Better Buying Tips
HP toner is probably the most common toner we sell in Denver. HP printers (and therefore HP toner) are the most prolific multi-purpose office printer here in the Denver area. The good thing about that is that compatible and remanufactured toner is readily available for them. The nice thing about having such common toner is that the sheer volume of compatible manufacturers means you can choose the highest quality HP toner compatible cartridge out of many manufacturers. I wrote an article several weeks ago about the importance of your toner retailer having multiple suppliers. This is because each supplier will have different manufacturing strengths and weaknesses. Many Denver toner suppliers don’t really realize this themselves, so they end up selling you the product with the highest margin or most convenient supplier. Here at Pahoda Image Products, we only use the highest rated suppliers, but even within them (with color toner cartridges), there are strengths and weaknesses in their color toner output. With HP toner, all compatible toner cartridges are not created equal! They vary in quality between compatibles (or virgin remanufactured) and the drill and fill cartridges. If you want to get high-quailty prints, save some money, and do a [...] read more
HP Toner in Denver
We have an HP LaserJet 4350dtn(Q5942X) in our office that we’re selling. It’s a good printer with plenty of mileage left on it. We’re asking $500 for it, and it comes with a two-thirds full X HP toner cartridge. For an HP machine that prints 55 pages per minute, it’s a great deal. That’s part of what this post is about. The other part is about HP toner in general. HP toner has one of the smallest margins of profit for OEM cartridges. For most toner suppliers like us, HP OEM toner is only marginally worth doing for the overhead and slight profit margin. That may make you tempted to think, “whow, HP toner must be a great deal then!” This is in fact false. HP just charges a lot for their toner! HP compatible toner is one of the most common types of toner we sell here in the Denver metro area. HP toner, while not as expensive as Lexmark, can make monochrome printing fairly expensive if you’re purchasing OEM toner. Bying compatibles makes the most sense if you’re primarily doing B&W printing. The cost difference between OEM and compatibles is generally around 30-40%. That adds up quickly [...] read more
SoyPrint Article from Idiana Soybean Alliance
Here’s an article from the Indiana Soybean Alliance web site about their partnership with SoyPrint. There is a lot of excitement here in Denver (and the printing community overall) about this new product. We here at Pahoda Image Products recently became distributors of SoyPrint cartridges here in Denver! I boldfaced the type on Rick’s statement at the end of the article. His points are extremely important, and they make so much sense for the hesitant buyer. Even the most staunch anti-environmentalist can’t help but be impressed by the localism of the product. It’s made here in the US (for HP and Cannon brand printers), so all manufacturing must be at least up to our environmental standards! Enjoy: –Everyone can print black, but now consumers can make the choice to print green. SoyPrint is an environmentally-friendly, soy-based printer toner cartridge that is making its way into the marketplace thanks in part to funding from the Indiana Soybean Alliance’s (ISA) Indiana New Ventures and Enterprises in Soy Technology (INVEST) program. “The award of this grant, and the creation of the INVEST program itself, speak volumes about ISA’s leadership and ingenuity in the industry,” said Rick Greenlaw, vice president of SoyPrint. “Once again, [...] read more
Xerox Phaser 8400 solid ink
The Xerox Phaser line is pretty impressive. It started in 1999 when Xerox bought Tektronix color-printing division, a Wilsonville, OR company. Tektronix had developed the solid ink technology back in the early ’90s, which basically eradicated the toner cartridge and replaced it with the minimalistic ink-block. It revolutionized the toner world, and has made the cost-per-print price drop dramatically over the years. The Phaser 8400 has been discontinued; I was just talking to a gentleman the other other day who traded a couple of his 8400s in for the Phaser 8860 (and received Xerox’s $500 per machine trade in!). However, if you have one that’s been more gently used than his, I’m sure it’s still pumping out the prints for a very good price! In our Print Share Program (where we help Denver non-profits receive printer and toner donations from our corporate clients), the only machines we recommend for color are the Xerox Phasers due to the price-friendly nature of the solid ink technology. The green nature of the solid ink process makes it more attractive to our earth-conscious clients as well. Because there’s no bulky cartridge, it reduces the amount of plastic that needs to be made and eventually [...] read more
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