Question about drum life

[aab1]

In that case a service contract would put me out of business. If I have to pay over 10 tens the cost per page for genuine supplies than I do with compatibles/refills ($700 for canon cartridges, $150 for compatibles of identical quality, $40 for refills, why in the world would I buy $700 cartridges from a company that doesn't give a crap about it's customers in the first place) then that makes no sense whatsover, the running cost would make me loose over 20 cents per sheet I'd sell rather than make a good profit. Anyway the MF requires no maintenance, all "wear-out-able" parts are user replaceable and built into the cartridges.

And I got this MF8350 as an intro to laser printing to see if I can make money with the 6 times higher cost per page (and that's using refills). If it works well I'll buy a bigger HP that ends up costing less per page, this was my first and last Canon printer.

At first: Your MF is quite small device. I bet the dealer wouldn't make contract to it.

There are different types of service contracts. We usually make a contract which includes everything else except papers and finisher staples. Customer pays certain amount of money for one page (that certain amount is some cents or even less).

If you want a contract which doesn't include toners, the price of the one page will decrease. But you must buy genuine cartridges yourself (Canon or Canon's authorized dealers won't make contracts if you use other manufacturer's compatible toner).

[RRodgers]

In a word, (err or a few) a larger machine usually has a larger drum, a larger drum will (usually) last longer than a smaller drum (they don't have to work as hard and don't have to turn as much as a smaller drum)
HTH

[Fer]

Dude why do u want another laser machine? Since can run ink for a lower price a page then laser, whats the use? Lasers can touch ink's qualities if they are at least 20k-30k. I'm talking about the IP C1. Then ink machines can run real heavy coated paper with ease.

See yourself lucky, u can run ink cheaper, not much ppl can. Toss the laser and continue using ink.

[mrwho]

Well, that's the point, isn't it? If the guy's so happy with inkjet, why the hell he keeps bothering us with his ramblings?

[Stirton.M]

Somehow the putz seems to think that injet printers are discussed at this site. Manuals4you gave him a hinted link to move on, but the moron did not get it.