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Ice Age Wallpapers 1[1]Like Scrat from Ice Age (pictured on the left), I've been searching for answers as to how much ink is used with a "D" (24x36) size black drawing.  Two recent opportunities have me in a fight with HP ink based MFP's.  Both of these are on the lower end MFP devices. I felt that if I can validate the ink cost per ml I would have a better chance of selling my toner based wide format device.

I did find one recent document on the web from a dealers site that stated that 1ml of ink would be used for each square foot.  However I'm thinking that was more for low cost inkjet printers. Because when you do the math cost of cartridge divided by amount of ML, I was coming out with a price of 76 cents per square. I know that's not right.

I then remembered that I did receive a chart from one of the manufacturers for black ink usage with one of their wide format plotters.

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This charts tells us that the cost per square depending on the yield of the cartridge is .056 for the first column and then .02 for the second column. What was not provided was a sample .pdf of the drawing (arrgghh).  Knowing that most wide format drawings have a title block, some text, and some hatching. I'm thinking I should double the cost to .112 and .04.  Do you agree or disagree?

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