Robin Raskin, a Yahoo! tech advisor, wrote an interesting article on Kodak inkjet printers and their claim to save consumers 50% on their printer cartridge costs.

You can read the full story, but here is the short of it.

Kodak has been selling inkjet cartridges at $10 (black) and $15 (color), about 50% less than other printer manufacturers are selling their black and color printer cartridges for. They also claimed that based on these prices a home printer user could produce 4×6 color photos at a cost of 14 cents each.

Popular Photography took these numbers and put them to the test. Their finding: To get the quality photo that Kodak claimed you would you needed to purchase their more expensive photo paper. This brought the price of each photo to 35 cents. Kodak quickly responded that their printers and inks were “created to serve the needs of households that print large quantities of black and white and color documents in addition to color photos.” The Kodak series of printers were not designed to be exclusively photo printers.

In the end, Raskin said she liked the printer, and felt she was saving money. Pacific Ink wants to know what you think?