Calculating page coverage for Color Laser Printers

It can be a difficult task to calculate printing costs, much less to calculate the coverage on toner usage on a page unless you utilize technology. There are sample copies of pages with estimated page coverage to calculate page yield. But they all vary in colors, text and pictures, but do they actual mimic what your actual business printing needs?

Typically a manufacturer of color printer toner cartridge estimates the page yield of 5%. Do you actually think this is in the real world?

How about those PowerPoint presentation you printed. Most presentations page coverage is about 75%. How about those flyers you print, print coverage can be up to 50%.

Do the math here for a presentation printout - 50% compared to the 5% that a manufacturer leads you to believe. Your costs per print, just went up 10 fold.

So we have found the perfect tool to try and estimate your actual page coverage as your are ready to print.

Download the color laser printing cost estimator software here.

Canon's New Mysterious Part Numbers

We found these new Canon part numbers, but with no printer information. Anyone out there have an idea of what Laser Printer these go to?

Canon Toner Cartridges

• Canon Black Toner Cartridge 323 - R04-9134-XXX
• Canon Black Toner Cartridge 323 - R04-9234-XXX, Probably high yield
• Canon Cyan Toner Cartridge 323 - R04-9133-XXX
• Canon Magenta Toner Cartridge 323 - R04-9132-XXX
• Canon Yellow Toner Cartridge 323 - R04-9131-XXX

Canon Starters / Developers

• Canon Black Starter / Developer Cartridge 323 - R04-9034-XXX
• Canon Cyan Starter / Developer Cartridge 323 - R04-9033-XXX
• Canon Magenta Starter / Developer Cartridge 323 - R04-9032-XXX
• Canon Yellow Starter / Developer Cartridge 323 - R04-9031-XXX

So which is it? Qube or Cube?

Xerox just recently released the Color Qube Inkstick printer which is pretty fast printer and supposedly has a low cost TCO.

But we still have a hard time understanding their marketing. So what is the real name of this new Xerox printer?

We have found both names on the Xerox website, Xerox ColorCube and Xerox ColorQube.

With "Google Suggest" for the keywords "Xerox Color Qube", you get this:

Did you mean: Xerox Color Cube

But on the flip-side, for the keywords, "Xerox Color Cube" Xerox is paying for this keyword in their Google AdWords.

Now the real confusing part of this, the spec page of Xerox's web site for these printers, they call these new machines ColorQube.

At the same time on Xerox's website, they are running a sweepstakes for the Color Qube, the page with official rules for the sweepstake, has Color Cube with the trademark.

Our Guess is ColorQube......not ColorCube

It happens to the best of us! Google Goes Down Today

I am in no way comparing us to Google.

But when I was trying to get my email from my G-Mail account I was encountering problems - No Messages. It had the look and feel that I lost my network connection. My browser was stuck. So after the due diligence of checking my wireless connections, checking different machines, different network connections and virus protection I still couldn't connect to Google.

Hmmm... The perplexing computer system.

Come to find out Google had a little oops today. Yes on May 14th, 2009 Google was down for about 45 minutes. Did you notice it? I sure did....

What happened is when they identify a malicious site and ban them from being presented, they put them in a malicious website database in Google. That's when a little human error came into play. A typo! A simple back-slash instead of a forward slash created this little blip in Google. So all sites with this typo got the blackout effect and couldn't connect. A human typo created this blackout in Google accounts. I guess the right type of slash in the malicious database is a very important thing in the Google database, if not, Oops.

But been there, done that, typo's happen. So have my freinds at Kyocera and Taskalfa or Taskafla. No big deal, everything is working fine now.

Xerox Color Qube 9200 Series Supplies Information

Xerox introducing what they call new technology at a cost effective business model. For them or the end-user? Personally I would check my page coverage before I hit the print button with the Page Coverage Estimator Software. It's free to download.

We checked on which gets searched more often for this new printer - Color Cube or Color Qube.

The winner is Color Cube.

Here are the specs for the new Xerox Printers.
Print speed respectively to the models:

• ColorQube 9201
• ColorQube 9202
• ColorQube 9203

Color Mode

• High Resolution/Photo Mode: 30 ppm / 35ppm / 38ppm
• Enhanced Mode (Default): 38 ppm / 45ppm / 50ppm
• Standard Mode*: 50 ppm / 60ppm / 70ppm
• Fast Color Mode*: 60 ppm / 70ppm / 85ppm

Monochrome / Black & White

• High Resolution/Photo Mode: 38 ppm
• Enhanced Mode (Default): 50 ppm
• Standard Mode*: 70 ppm
• Fast Color Mode*: 85 ppm

If you buy the supplies out right:

• Xerox 108R00832 / 108R832, 4 Black Ink Sticks - 40,000 page yield - $570.00
• Xerox 108R00829 / 108R829, 4 Cyan Ink Sticks - 37,000 page yield - $176.00
• Xerox 108R00830 / 108R830, 4 Magenta Ink Sticks - 37,000 page yield - $176.00
• Xerox 108R00831 / 108R831, 4 Yellow Ink Sticks - 37,000 page yield - $176.00

If you lease the Xerox ColorQube 9200 series machines or use Xerox's Print Management service. My Guess? As they charge for the supplies by the meter count.

• Xerox 108R00836 / 108R836, 4 Black Ink Sticks - 40,000 page yield
• Xerox 108R00833 / 108R833, 4 Cyan Ink Sticks - 37,000 page yield
• Xerox 108R00834 / 108R834, 4 Magenta Ink Sticks - 37,000 page yield
• Xerox 108R00835 / 108R835, 4 Yellow Ink Sticks - 37,000 page yield

Xerox New Printers

Xerox Phaser 7500 color printer

• Fast 35 ppm color printing
• Supports media up to 100 lb stock and 12.6 x 47 inch banner
• Unique, evolutionary “Color By Word” technology
• True Adobe® Postscript® 3™ and Pantone-approved color
• Environmentally-friendly EA Toner - How about the wallet?

Xerox WorkCentre 7400 series color multifunction

• Breakthrough 1200 x 2400 dpi print technology
• Print/copy speeds up to 35 ppm color and black & white
• Earth-friendly biomass plastic construction
• Advanced color scanning technology

Xerox WorkCentre 6400 color multifunction

• Up to 32ppm color and 37 ppm black-and-white
• Enterprise-class features and power on the desktop
• Robust security

Xerox WorkCentre 4250

• Copy and print speeds up to 45 pages per minute
• Print Around & Fax forward to email
• Global Print Drivers and network-ready connectivity
• ID card copy

How do you actually calculate page coverage for Inkjet Printers?

It can be a complicated task to calculate printing costs, much less to calculate the coverage on ink on a page unless you utilize technology. There are sample copies of pages with estimated page coverage to calculate page yield. But they all vary in colors, text and pictures, but do they actual mimic what your actual business printing needs?

Typically a manufacturer of printer inkjet cartridge estimates the page yield of 5%. Do you actually think this is in the real world? How about those PowerPoint presentation you printed. Most presentations page coverage is about 75%. How about those photos you print, print coverage can be up to 90%, granted most are on a 4 X 6 instead of an 8.5 X 11 paper.

Do the math here for a presentation printout - 75% compared to the 5% that a manufacturer leads you to believe. Your costs per print, just went up dramatically.

So we have found the perfect tool to try and estimate your actual page coverage as your are ready to print. Download the inkjet printing cost estimator software here. It's free to try. No Spyware, no Pop-ups, no Trojans....

Reverse Vending Machines for Recycling

From Gizmodo - So when are these machines going to be available for inkjet toner cartridge recycling.



I've always been comfortable with humans' relationship with vending machines: we feed them money, they feed us high-fructose corn syrup, everyone's happy. Envirobank wants to upset this age-old ritual with their "reverse vending machines".

The pitch: these boxes, fashioned like regular ol' vending machines, will eat, clean and smush your recyclable empties, rewarding you for your good deed with coupons, cash credit or vouchers for nearby stores. Your good deed, of course, was that you a) recycled a plastic bottle and b) watched a targeted advertisement on the machine's LCD screen. As of last week, they've been deployed in a few locations in Envirobank's native Australia, but only on a trial basis.

Evirobank claims the machines not only encourage recycling, but reduce carbon emissions by preparing the empties for direct shipment to a recycling depot, bypassing waste processing facilities altogether. I'm not sure that building a massive machine, replete with screens, processors, motors and pumps, results in a net decrease in emissions compared to driving some bottles around, but their hearts are in the right place, and 'details' like that tend to be ignored anyway.

Print from a Blackberry, by HP

Similar to the iPhone application, now you can print to any printer from your Blackberry.

Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion announced on Monday a partnership for enterprise clients that incorporates the newly released BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 software and a print service.

HP CloudPrint for BlackBerry Smartphones, a Web-based technology slated to be shown at this week's Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla., lets users print e-mails, photos, documents, and Web pages from their BlackBerrys to the nearest printer, regardless of the printer manufacturer.

"The service is printer-agnostic and driverless, and requires simple Internet access," HP said in a statement.

HP Operations Manager for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, also released Monday, is designed to enable companies to monitor and manage their BlackBerry enterprise environment. Managed BlackBerry Services, meanwhile, enables IT managers to outsource support of the BlackBerry environment to EDS Mobile Workplace Services, HP said.

"RIM and HP are working together to deliver solutions to customers that weave mobility into their daily operations--from innovative new services in the cloud to managed mobile services for the enterprise," Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive officer of Research In Motion, said in a statement. "Through our collaboration with HP, businesses will have access to an expanded set of applications and services for their BlackBerry smartphone deployments."

Sayonara - Well Kinda!

Office Depot seems to be going down with a fight - Closing all of their stores in Japan to cut costs.

TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Office Depot Inc. plans to close all of its stores in Japan by the end of this year because of intense price competition, according a Nikkei newspaper report.
Office Depot's subsidiary in Japan has so far closed eight stores this year, with the other 20 expected to close by the end of the year, the Nikkei reported Sunday.
Office Depot was cited as saying the closures will cost about $13 million.
Office Depot Japan Ltd. opened its first store in 1997. The subsidiary will reportedly continue its mail-order and online sales and soon sell other private-brand goods now marketed overseas.
It also intends to sell private-brand goods to major supermarket chains, the report said.