Inkjet Address Printers - Are You Spending Too Much Money on a Cartridge Based System?

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• Upgrade to an Atlas Inkjet System: The Atlas System uses a commercial printhead (as opposed to a cartridge) and a solvent based ink. The ink is pumped to the printheads as the machine runs, allowing a In today's economy, the answer to this question becomes more important because the cost of ink has been increasing. As a matter of fact, in February of 2009, one of the major ink manufacturers (Altex) reported price increases ranging from 3% - 10% depending on the brand name of ink. Ink suppliers everywhere are trying to keep the prices as low as possible in order to retain their customers, but eventually they’ll start losing money; so some serious end-user price increases are likely.
  
  After surveying our own customer ink usage and volume, we've found that the average user spends $1.75 per thousand pieces to address mail. The price goes up even more with specialty inks. At this price, mailrooms and mail houses would be spending $872 per month just to address 500,000 pieces of mail. That’s enough to cover a lease payment for another piece of equipment, and many mailrooms go through much more than this on a single machine.
  
  Some mailers try to reduce this cost with recycled cartridges. After all, they have to cut costs wherever and whenever they can. But the results are deceiving. They sometimes offer instant relief, but the long term financial burden is greater than the short term financial relief.
  The failure rate of recycled cartridges is much higher than for new cartridges. Every single cartridge that fails means more down time. The operator has to stop the machine, reinstall another cartridge, test the cartridge, and then start the job from where it left off (sometimes reprinting thousands of mail pieces that had minor flaws due to failing nozzles).
  Recycled cartridges do not always hold as much ink. Depending on the recycling company, refilled cartridges can sometimes have only half as much ink as a new cartridge. And some cartridges consistently fail before they’re completely empty.
  
  Cartridges that fail before they are empty can cause unseen problems with operators. When operators have to stop production because of one failed cartridge, they sometimes tend to replace ALL the cartridges, whether they are empty or not. This comes from the low expectations they have for refilled cartridges. Many mail houses throw away thousands of dollars worth of ink simply because the operators want to avoid downtime.
  
  Here we see that downtime and ink usage can battle against each other. Less downtime equals more wasted ink. Less wasted ink equals more down time.
  
  So how can you reduce your cost of ink consumption without compromising production?
  
  
  
  • Upgrade to an Atlas Inkjet System: The Atlas System uses a commercial printhead (as opposed to a cartridge) and a solvent based ink. The ink is pumped to the printheads as the machine runs, allowing a continuous supply without changing cartridges. This unit can print addresses for as little as 30 cents per thousand. That’s 82% less than the average cost for inkjet systems. While the initial purchase price is higher, mail rooms could easily make up the price difference in as little as a year on ink usage alone. As an added bonus, they’ll be able to print at DOUBLE the speeds of a cartridge based system. Atlas ink can dry on most glossy stocks with the help of an infrared dryer.
  
  
  • Use An Aurora UV Inkjet System: UV ink utilizes a chemical process, which allows ultraviolet light to "cure" the ink as opposed to drying it. Most systems use an infrared dryer, which evaporates water or solvent out of an ink with intense heat. With UV, the ink is "cured" under a UV Lamp allowing the ink to dry INSTANTLY on most glossy material, and even plastic. The ink actually turns into a form of plastic, and has a raised, "laser quality effect". Cost of ink on this unit is only 40 cents per thousand. Speed and operation are similar to that of the Atlas. That’s 77% less than the cost of using cartridge systems.
  
  
  
  • Purchase Quality Ink: If you are using an HP based system, purchase quality inks from a reputable company. Don’t waste time with the half-filled, fail-prone ink cartridges. Buy cartridges that are from HP, or HP- certified sources at competitive prices. This will assure that you get maximum ink use out of each cartridge.
  
  
  
  
  Don’t waste another penny on expensive supplies. With the mail industry taking a dive, ink usage is the last thing you want to worry about. Look into a better system, and start seeing a bigger profit.

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  Rick Krieger is the owner of Addresser Based Systems, a mail equipment dealer who keeps their customers on the cutting edge of Mailroom Equipment and Address Printers at addresserbasedsystems.com. You can find more information at AddresserBasedSystems.com.

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