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Author Topic: IS THIS A QU FEATURE NEW TO YOU?  (Read 3481 times)
Terry-M
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« on: November 03, 2016, 10:44:46 AM »

Our good friend Fred recently found his well used and excellent Epson R2000 printer had started giving problems and had to stop using it.  Cry
I have the same printer which is newer than Fred's so I wondered if mine was likely to give problems soon as it is used frequently too.
So, we compared our usage - how?  Huh?
QU, from its automated job log, is able to calculate the area printed and the total paper area (less margins) for one or many jobs.
Open File/Open Automated Job Log ... If you have multiple printers, click the Printed To column header to sort by printer. Select all the jobs by the specific  printer , right click and choose Paper/Ink Analysis.
The first attachment below shows the dialogue from the Job Log screen.
The next 2 attachments show the results from mine and Fred's R2000 printers.
So Fred has printed 199 Msq (2147 Ftsq) and I have printed 80 Msq (862 Ftsq). That is 2.5 time more than me so there's hope now for another few years service.  Grin

The Ink/Paper analysis is, of course, to help commercial printers to cost their jobs. I recently created a spread sheet for my own work to dispel the myth that original Inks are expensive.  Shocked
I showed that in my case, ink was 22% of the cost of an A3 print on Ilford Smooth Pear paper. I buy original ink for the R2000 at a very good  price (only the R2000 at these low prices, why, I do not know) but at normal prices, the ink would be 41% of the total cost of the print.
My view is, even at normal original ink prices, it's good value - after all a print is made from paper and ink, both are essential and equally as valuable!  Cool
Terry
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2016, 01:05:05 PM »

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The next 2 attachments show the results from mine and Fred's R2000 printers.
So Fred has printed 199 Msq (2147 Ftsq) and I have printed 80 Msq (862 Ftsq). That is 2.5 time more than me so there's hope now for another few years service.  Grin

I get so confused by Terry's abbreviations.
Our local airport is SRQ
I printed MSQ
Our Chinese restaurants say, No MSG

I shouldn't be surprised. He drives on the wrong side of the road and the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car.
Our postman has a postal car with the steering wheel on the right.

So it looks like I used 2147 Sq Feet of prints. Is that definitive? Should we use this type of statistic to judge the life span of the printer?
There are more factors... age of printer, what about ink? Does that contribute?
I really don't know.  I will say this... when I got the new R 2000, and even  now, there was no 3rd party ink available; but Amazon had complete sets of OEM ink for 20 dollars a set.
I used these inks exclusively, except for CYAN which the printer used at a ridiculous rate, and I bought replacements as singles.
The deal was good, but the price compromise  was the fact that they had severely expired dates. Maybe they had sediment? Maybe they just spoil like old milk?
These worked very well, until the end when the colors bled into each other.
The question is: Did these outdated cartridges contribute to the demise of the printer, or did it just come to its worn out point regardless of ink?

Anyone with some thoughts?

Have fun
Fred
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