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rossdv8;88156 wrote:Someone in an earlier reply said, and I've often said in this forum, that the ink, even buyinn Sawgrass, is a minor cost per item.

I print mugs using the dye sub printer, and labels for their boxes using the pigment printer. The labels are made simply by sending the print to both printers at the same time. I get a print to use on the mug and exactly the same print to cut and put on the box.

Recently I marked the cartridges. and didn't use the printers for anything other than mugs and labels for a while. I use a colour laser for day to day printing and refill my own cartridhes, and I generally only print mugs and labels on the twin inkjets.

After 500 mugs and labels the ink level has dropped close to 1cm on the dye sub printer cartridges. It has dropped around 2.5cm on the pigment printer cartridges.

My experience will be different from other people because I run Epson inks through Brother printers, mainly because Brothers rarely seem to clog on dye sub ink, partly because I like to be different.

Even with the high cost of Sawgrass ink, compared to the price of genuine Epson pigment inks the lower usage brings the cost of using each printer pretty close.

I should add that both printers are set to print at Media 'Plain Paper' and Quality 'Plain Normal' so the pigment printer is not using more ink because it is printing at higher quality.

One mistake I used to make as a raw beginner was to try to print at high quality modes like 'high' or 'photo'. Someone on this forum pointed out that I was just wasting ink trying to do dye sub like that.