Calculate printing costs: Tips and tools

If you want to find out how high your printing costs are, you can calculate them using the usual parameters and perhaps even save money

Calculate printing costs for your home or business printer

Before you buy a new printer for your company or home office, it makes sense to calculate the printing costs and compare them depending on the device. The price of the toner is particularly important.

• The printing costs consist of the purchase price for the printer, the electricity costs, paper costs and the costs for toner cartridges or ink cartridges.

• You can disregard the electricity costs when calculating the printing costs, as a printer with a consumption of 5 watts costs around three cents per day, even at full capacity.

• The range of printer paper depends on the quality and quantity. Buy larger stacks of copy paper directly to save money. You can calculate a price of 1.4 cents per sheet

• The most decisive factor in calculating your printing costs are the cartridges you need for your model, as these need to be replaced regularly and cost the most money. Find out in advance what the print range of the cartridges for your printer is, as this can vary between 0.4 and 2 cents per page.

• Finally, add up all the costs to determine the total expenditure for your printer and regular printing.

Reduce printing costs: 5 tips for lower expenses

You can save money on printing with a few tips.

• Stiftung Warentest has tested third-party cartridges several times. If you use these instead of the original ones, you can save up to 80 percent

• You can also reduce your expenditure with various economical fonts.

• Classic: Save paper with double-sided printing.

• Instead of buying ink and toner at your local store, you can save up to 80 percent at online stores.

• You can refill your printer cartridges yourself to make the most of the savings.

Calculate printing costs for larger projects

For booklets, flyers, T-shirts and all conceivable printed items, you can make a calculation on the Wir-Machen-Druck website.

• Here you will receive a calculation of the amount you can expect to pay. As long as you do not enter any personal data, this is free of charge

• For large projects, you save a lot of money with online print shops and can calculate the exact costs in advance.