On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:45:44 +0000, The Good Doctor
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>Nonsense. 100% is putting solid ink of each colour on the paper, so
>it is far too high. 5% is very low, the truth lies in between, but it
>will certainly be closer to 5% than 100%.
The problem here is the meaninglessness of the "5%" figure. 5% of what?
Epson do publish ISO 24711 page yield figures for some of their
printers, but I have not found such figures for the R2400.
HP publish page yield figures both for the ISO 24711 test set and for
photos of quoted sizes. In the absence of information to the contrary, I
would expect the ISO-test:photo ink consumption ratio to be similar for
other brands of printer on the basis that the most significant factor
will be the area printed.
HP's figures work out at a factor of over 10 difference in number of
pages between full A4 page photos and the ISO test pages (which are
intended to be like typical text+graphics business do***ents as far as I
can see).
Since the original question was about an A3 capable printer and this is
a photo group I am making a wild guess that the nubmer required is for
printing A3 size photos and my first approximation would be to find the
ISO 24711 number and divide by 20 based on the double area and ISO:photo
ratio.
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