There are several ways to look at the value of a color label printer, but the most practical might be to look at the cost per label. Each time you print one label, you will be expending a certain amount of ink, and with a well-regulated printer setup you might be able to determine this easily and use it for accounting and budgeting purposes.
If you have no idea what your printer’s rate per label is, you can turn to the tool linked on our FAQ page that will help you calculate what you will be spending on prints by tallying up exactly how many prints are in your cartridge. As the page says “the cost of the ink cartridge divided by the total prints” will give you the per label cost. This applies to not just the Primera LX400 but also the LX800 and LX810 models.
With the help of that app and one of the easy-to-set-up color label printers we carry, you can estimate the price and judge a label printer by how well it delivers within those parameters. This can be useful because it draws upon the very specific plans you have in store for these color label printers: someone who is looking to print baggage labels, for example, might have need for a different proportion of color and black ink than those producing labels for medicine bottles.
When shopping for a printer, you can also keep in mind the way their ink cartridges are structured. The Primera LX900, for example, has as one of its features a system that allows you to use ink cartridges one at a time.
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