Question

Is printing a book on a printer profitable or a loss?

Answer 1

I would defiantly say this is a major loss for sure. The price of paper and ink alone is more expensive than you can gain on the sales of a book. Furthermore, you'll need a high-quality printer that can actually do a decent job of printing your books. The problems with formatting and binding is another issue that you haven't even tried to explore. Printing a high-quality cover for the book isn't easy on standard printers these days.  I needed to print out a lot of cards for a wedding I was helping my friend get ready for. She purchased the color and black ink cartridges for the job and we were able to print out 120 pages on a set of cartridges. I'm not sure the cost where you live, but here we paid $85 for the two ink cartridges. In the end, the cartridges that she purchased could be refilled. I had purchased a refill kit some time back and decided to refill the cartridges instead of buying new ones. This really saved on the price of buying new cartridges. Furthermore, I found out when I refilled the cartridges I was able to print over 200 sheets on the refilled cartridges and on the new one I could only get 120 sheets before the cartridge was empty. So you see to buy new cartridges is expensive and you can't print out that much before you need to change or refill the cartridge.