Think ink!
The price of ink cartridges can come as a shock
Ink cartridges are the headline running cost of any printer. Some inkjet printers come with options for standard, XL and even XXL cartridges. Going for a higher-capacity option generally reduces the cost per print, and you won’t have to replace cartridges so often, but they’re more expensive. Canon Megatank and Epson Ecotank printers have larger ink tanks, which are replenished from bottles. This can work out much cheaper for ink, but there’s a bigger up-front cost. It’s natural to think that printers with a larger number of cartridges will be more expensive to run, but the flip side is that you’ll use less of each colour. See the graphs in each of the following reviews to see the cost per millilitre of ink, using the largest-capacity cartridges available.