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79 points

Holy shit, .15 euros per page? Why not just run to der Kinkos? I haven’t checked but I imagine it’s cheaper there. I get the convenience of having a printer at home but this is like if every cup of coffee you make at home cost you the Starbucks $8.25.

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48 points

Or just don’t buy HP.

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37 points

The correct answer, as usual, is: don’t buy HP.

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21 points

probably cheaper to print with blood than to use HP printers

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11 points

Really cheap if you BYOB

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5 points

I BMOB everywhere I go

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In the US, if you print ~52(+) B&W pages a year, HP Instant Spyware is seemingly cheaper.

FedEx Kinko’s:

Non-EU- lett Packard:

For color, HP’s cheaper once you print two pages a month.

Printing is a good excuse to walk to the local print shop. Let’s say, though, you have to drive your Honda Civic a couple miles through Los Angeles - that adds roughly thirty cents of fuel (ignoring other vehicle costs). (That’s our bestselling car in our second largest city, because you wouldn’t give up your parking spot in NYC.)

Conventional wisdom is to buy a Brother laser printer, but there’s a bit of upfront cost for the color models, which are a little larger when comparing versions with scanners to inkjet all-in-ones. Who wants to do the math on those :)

…whoh they have their own subscription!

Anyway I think this is more like having a printing-press-barista in your closet instead of going to the print-barista down the street. It could be anywhere from 76 cents more expensive to $5.80 less expensive a month. Compare to a Mr. Coffee which you’ll pay off right away by skipping Starbucks.

tl;dr let HP siphon your data, what’s the worst that could happen? 😈

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Does that include the price of the printer?

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Oops yeah add in $45!! That’s 67 color pages worth of cheddar if you walk to Kinko’s - that I forgot about.

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You forgot about that beautiful thing also known as your local library!

Mine is around 2 miles away from my home and only charges me 10¢ per b&w sheet. Its absolutely perfect for any printing needs I may have.

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Unfortunately my city’s library system was hacked a few months ago and all of their computer services are down until January while they un-fuck things. In the meantime I go to Staples when I want to print.

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Great point!

In San Francisco, it’s ten cents AND you get two bucks worth a day free.

You reminded me: sometimes local politicians will let you fax (and thus perhaps print) free at their offices.

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My thing is…they can dictate how much you use YOUR OWN PRINTER??? Like…how? Why? What.

Like…

WHAT.

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$8.25 for a Starbucks? Man, it’s like £3.55-£4 here in UK.

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Depends on the drink. Get a super-frappa-extrashot-sugar bomb and yeah, it’ll be $8-9 easy. A regular medium coffee is $3 or so.

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Depends on location too. I live in Seattle, I don’t know the last time I’ve seen a cup for less than $6 on anything other than drip

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I’ve got a whole 0.5kg bag of coffee for that much in Germany, and that’ll last me almost a month (~25 cups). What’s so good about Starbucks that it costs as much per cup?

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Nothing really. I just can’t make that when traveling. Unfortunately when out and about in the UK you either have Costa, Starbucks or Nero around the same price or McDonald’s and Greggs which is cheaper. It’s very hard to find any local coffee shops.

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The cheapest plan 0.099 Cents for each page 10 pages in the month. 1500 pages per month 54.99 € respectively.

Yeah, depending on where you live, it may be cheaper to go to your local printer shop. Plus minus cost of transport and your time.

I did not check HP’s prices to Poland. Table lists 100 pages as 0.07EUR/page. Krakow, Poland, nearby printer shop takes ~0.02-0.07EUR per A4 page, and there is no subscription. Nor doing 100 pages.

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