Epson's new printers change the ink-onomics of your home office. WSJ's Wilson Rothman explains why paying more will make your ink-cartridge hassles disappear. It was after midnight, and I was ...

The latest Epson WorkForce Pro printer uses a smaller design and smaller ink tanks, but the ET-8700 still ships with enough ink to last the average small business two years. The all-in-one printer ...

Using included ink bottles, the claimed print-out yield is 4,000 pages with black text or graphics and 6,500 color pages. All color inks are dye-based. Expression ET-2550 , $400.

One set of ink bottles, plus an extra black are included with the EcoTank ET-2850. Epson says this is enough ink to print 14,000 monochrome pages and 5,200 pages in colour, ...

Using the page yields Epson provides (4,000 black, 6,500 color), I calculated the cost for both black-only and full-color pages to be 0.3 cents and 0.2 cents per page.

This behaviour is particularly egregious as a set of 700ml ink cartridges for the Epson 9900 printer comes in at around £2,500—so, users are being forced to replace the cartridges when there's ...

Brandy tells us that her Brother printer also requires yellow ink to print black and white. Brother printers are no better than Epson or Canon. I have an all-in-one with tri-color and black ink.