Me and My Printer

I've been looking at different printing options and finding a low cost printer is turning out to be something of a challenge.   Still waiting on Miss Print for a quote but as of right now it looks like $8.00 a book is my best price.  So thought I'd print a copy out on my little Kodak printer here at the house and the first one took about 20 min since I had to work out the pages.  Turns out two sided printing can make your head spin if you are not paying attention.  But after the first one the next two were done in about 10 min.  Not bad.  Checked my ink cartridge to see if I hand any ink left and to my amazement I used only about 15% of the ink!!  So lets see one $25 color cartridge makes about 18 copies of my book.   Which comes down to about $1.50 per book.  Add in the card stock paper at $12 per 500 sheets, some spiral binders, laminating of the first and last page and maybe we can get the price down to less than $5.00 per book.   Course we probably will burn out our little printer!!   But at $70 I could throw one or two of them into the project and still come out cheaper.   Hmmmmm....will have to see where this leads.