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Cost to print 5,000 B&W pages on my HP inkjet: $300 ($12 per 200-page generic ink refill). Cost to print 5,000 B&W pages on my Brother laser: $25 ($12.50 per 2

Cost to print 5,000 B&W pages on my HP inkjet: $300 ($12 per 200-page generic ink refill). Cost to print 5,000 B&W pages on my Brother laser: $25 ($12.50 per 2600-page generic toner). Inkjets make no sense if you can put up the extra $50-100 up front for a laser printer. B&W is at least 10x cheaper, color is at least 5x cheaper, per page. I have a Brother HL-2270DW for B&W printing, and an HP M251nw for color. Both are wireless, easy to set up. Bonuses: Print 5 reams of paper before you need to swap a toner cartridge, instead of 3+ ink cartridges per ream. If you don't print anything for a few weeks, you won't need to throw out a dried out cartridge to use the printer again.

teslabox 10y ago
> Cost to print 5,000 B&W pages on my Brother laser: $25 ($12.50 per 2600-page generic toner). I found an unused HP P2015dn at a family member's office. It came loaded with an aftermarket cartridge. I also found a new-in-box HP toner. Pages printed with the genuine HP part are much sharper. Maybe some generic cartridges are better than others... ? The paper doesn't feed from the drawer anymore, but it feeds fine from the fold-down tray. It's got a wired network connection too, which works pretty well, except I can't print auto-duplex (manual-duplex only) over the network unless I'm printing from Chrome's printing dialogue (wth?). Total pages printed: 60387 Duplex pages printed: 4279 Pages mispicked in printer: 783 Pages jammed in printer: 29 PCL6 pages printed: 48916 PS pages printed: 505 PCL pages printed: 12937 edit: rephrased my statement about generic cartridges