Design & colour
Print job quantity & cost
Count printed pages and sheets, allowing for duplex copies.
A clear answer. Here’s how.
Printed pages=pages per copy×copies. Duplex sheets=ceil(pages per copy/2)×copies, keeping copies separate. Cost=physical sheets×paper cost+printed pages×ink cost+setup for a non-empty job. Time divides printed pages by supplied average speed. Excludes spoilage, warm-up, finishing, tax and duplex-speed variation not already in your assumptions.
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Worked example
A fixed demonstration, separate from the values you enter above.
- Document pages per copy
- 25
- Number of copies
- 10
- Printing
- Double sided
- Paper cost per physical sheet
- 0.01
- Ink / toner cost per printed page
- 0.03
- Fixed setup cost for a non-empty job
- 1
- Printed pages per minute
- 20
Example result
- Printed pages
- 250
- Physical sheets
- 130
- Paper cost
- 1.30
- Ink / toner cost
- 7.50
- Estimated total cost
- 9.80
- Printing minutes at supplied speed
- 12.5