Home printing: still worth it?
Would it shock you to know a Mercedes-Benz and a gallon of printer ink cost about the same? If you were wondering, the Merc would be a 2.1 E250 AMG on a 14 reg, which you can find on Autotrader on the heavy side of £9,000.
Home-printing enthusiasts would also have spotted that that gallon of ink would go quite far. If you look at the maths, a Canon Pro-1000 uses roughly a millilitre of ink across an A3 sheet of paper, which roughly comes out as 40p/50p. However, the true cost of printing is in the paper. An A3 sheet of paper could see you spending as little as £2.50 to near enough £7 for a heavyweight stock from Hahnemühle.
Despite some cost hits, there are still many benefits to home printing. For a start, it’s a way to reconnect with the tangible, physical nature of photography. For my parents, taking a photo was the act of transforming a moment into a timeless memory. These days we are increasingly lost in digital distraction, where the competition for views, click and
