Challenge 1) Print letters 2) Scan family photos 3) Print quality photos from digital. Special challenge: print and bind nine copies, two-sided, of an approx. 120 page story containing mostly text but also color pictures. Kinko’s? BRRRAAAAPPP. Wrong answer. About $200.00/copy. Answer…HP’s All-in-One. $99.00 at HP – I bought mine at Target for about that (Amazon as low as $54.50). To be honest, I compared them and couldn’t decide between Lexmark, HP, etc. so I made my decision based on the reasonable price of the ink cartridges AND – here was the clincher – I only had to remember three numbers. 92 Black, 93 Tri-Color and 99 Photo. Scanning – great. Printing photos – I forgot to put in 99 and ended up with great photos with only the 93! Printed and bound story - some trial and error
, and don’t try more than 30 or so pages at a time, but 16 copies later the recipient is thrilled! Kinko’s = $3,200.00. Me = printer + binder & supplies + 1 black per copy (that’s about 120 pgs per cartridge, average) and two tri-colors + paper = (let’s round up to) $550.00. Slower, but I still win.





