Calculate printing costs: tips and tools
You can easily calculate the printing costs online and save some money with a few tricks. We'll introduce you to the best tools and tricks in this article.
Calculate printing costs for your own printer at home and in the office
- Open the Printer Economy Check page and enter the model number of your printer in the search field. When the model has been found, click on the model number and then again on your printer under "available models" (see picture).
- Then click on "Start comparison" and close the "Savings" window on the next page. A comparison printer that is particularly economical is automatically added. The top printer is your model and below the blue bar you can see the costs: for example 7.4 cents per page.
- You can see the calculation basis in the top column and you can specify it with "Edit" - for example if you print out full-surface, colored images.
Reduce printing costs: 5 tips for lower expenses
- Stiftung Warentest has repeatedly tested third-party cartridges. Even in the 2015 test, you save up to 80 percent.
- You can also save money with various economical fonts.
- Classic: Save paper with double-sided printing.
- Instead of buying ink and toner in-store, you can save up to 80 percent in online shops.
- To get the most out of the price screw, you can refill your printer cartridge yourself.
Calculate printing costs for larger projects
- For notebooks, flyers, t-shirts and all imaginable printed items, you can make a calculation on the Wir -machen-Druck page.
- Here you get a calculation of the amount you can expect. As long as you do not enter any personal data, this is free of charge.
- For large projects, online printers save you a lot of money and you can calculate the exact costs in advance. We show good online printing companies in comparison.