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Can You Recommend a Good Printer?

Note: This post contains affiliate links.

Because our curriculum is an online membership to a website, and because all the lesson plans are digital PDF downloads, you’ll want to think about how you can print inexpensively.

For several years, we have been very happy with Canon printers. I have a combination printer/scanner/copier at the moment, the Canon PIXMA, but I use it to write curriculum and work on the business. It was around $60 on Amazon with free shipping included. I don’t know if you’d need something that fancy.

Canon PIXMA MX452
Canon PIXMA MX452


I had a smaller Canon printer before that, and it worked great with no problems for about 4 years. I only upgraded because I needed a scanner. I think this would be the perfect printer for most homeschooling families.

Canon Office Products IP2820 Inkjet Printer
Canon Office Products IP2820 Inkjet Printer


You can get ink for a good price through Amazon, too. We just use black ink, and we choose the default settings of “fast” and “grayscale” so that we never use color, to save money. But that’s just us. 🙂

The Cost of Printing

According to one study, the cost for our family to print with “grayscale” and only black ink (using the fancy Canon PIXMA above) is around $0.053 per page. With six children homeschooling each day, we use ink for the following subjects:

  • Bible – 4-8 pages/week – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.212 – $0.424
  • Together School – We use it only online (or max. 8 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.00 – $0.424
  • History – We use it only online, with occasional 1-2 pages printed from Internet (or max. 4 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.106 – $0.212
  • Copywork – Most of my children copy into a composition book, but we occasionally print, especially at the beginning of the year (5 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.265
  • Phonics – student 6 pages/week, teacher’s guide online (or max. 3 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.318 – $0.477
  • Spelling – 5-6 pages/week, per student – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.318 x 3 students = $0.954
  • Grammar – 5 pages/week, teacher’s guide online (or max. 15 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.265 – $1.06
  • Writing – We use it only online (or max. 4 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.212
  • Vocabulary – 5 pages/week – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.265
  • Typing – 5 pages/week – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.265
  • Math – 5 pages/week, teacher’s guide online (or max. 4 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.795 – $0.477 x 5 students = $1.43
  • Advanced Math – We use it only online (but average 8 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.00 – $0.424
  • Science – student worksheets (5 pages/week) and teacher’s guide (3 pages/week) – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.424 – $0.954
  • Preschool – 5 pages/week average, teacher’s guide online – Cost to Print Weekly: $0.26

TOTAL COST TO PRINT WEEKLY: $2.28 -$7.63 

(…and your printer might not be as fancy, and therefore, is probably cheaper! Check out your costs here.)

As you can see, it REALLY saves a lot of money to use the resources online or download the teacher’s guides to a Kindle or smart phone!

Another option is to use the HP Instant Ink subscription (from $2.99/month) so that you can use an unlimited amount of ink. This service has saved our customers a lot of money!

Let Others Print It for You

If printing things yourself doesn’t appeal to you, try downloading all the curriculum onto a flash drive or memory stick and going to Kinkos. They do a great job of printing and compiling our PDF files into books with whatever kind of binding you would like.

Click here to get a

Member News

Announcement: Word Power Has Been Postponed (October 11, 2020). Click here for Anne’s latest blog post.

We have updated the Language Arts section of our website with suggestions for every grade level.

We have also produced a new Curriculum Overview Chart, to help you as you choose subjects for your family.

Please contact our staff if you need further assistance.

 

Comments

  1. Anne Elliott says

    June 5, 2016 at 11:09 am

    This website was recommended. The cost per page (black and white) is 2.5 cents, plus shipping. That’s pretty cheap! http://www.bestvaluecopy.com

  2. Amanda Jantz says

    June 13, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    I have an HP printer and I use HP’s instant ink program. Here is the link:
    http://www8.hp.com/ca/en/ads/instant-ink/overview.html

  3. Tina says

    August 16, 2016 at 12:03 pm

    I have had a Brothers MFC-J450DW from Amazon for years. It works great and the ink is cheap. We buy the xtra lg ink and it last a long time with tons of school printing.

  4. Anne Elliott says

    August 16, 2016 at 1:50 pm

    Thank you!

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