Ink & toner can and should be FAR MORE than half of your income from printers.
I just checked my spreadsheet... year to date I've hauled in 2124 pounds of printers to my buyer. The price per pound fluctuates, but YTD I've been paid $80.28 for those 2124 pounds. That's less than 4 cents a pound and barely even worth my gas & time. BUT, I have to get rid of the printers I get, and I still take them (but only for free) so I'd likely have to drive them somewhere & pay to dispose of them at a dump, so I'd rather drive a bit further & get paid, however meagerly.
On the ink side of things, however, I'm up to $209.70 YTD in payments from the Erie, PA company that goes by many names. I don't jack with all the hoops the bigbox office stores make you jump through to recycle with them. I keep all the carts that my buyer won't pay for in a big box & just drop it off at a Staples or Office Depot for nothing. The bigbox office supply stores make you spend umpteen dollars on ink every coupla months just to get a couple of bucks store credit on empties. Seriously, I don't NEED to buy ink. I've got a trailer full of printers that mostly worked when I got them. I could use a printer til it ran out of ink, then toss it on the trailer & grab another to use til IT ran out of ink. They can kiss it with all those hoops!
Beware, though, the ink & toner buyers are not perfect... they reject many cartridges as 'damaged', and , wouldn't you know it, the damaged ones are all those HP78s that they are supposed to pay out $4.50 apiece on. Pffft. But hey, all those .20 cents apiece HP57s are in great shape. Pffft.
Yeah, if it wasn't for ink & toners, as frought with BS as getting value for them can be... printers would be leverite.
And I'd never buy one.
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