Brother seems to have picked up where HP left off about a decade ago. I bought my wife one of the low-end lasers when she started law & grad school. She ran t

Brother seems to have picked up where HP left off about a decade ago. I bought my wife one of the low-end lasers when she started law & grad school. She ran through about 10k pages/year (she'd even print front/back/upside down to "save" on paper) which was about 1.5 cartridges. It doesn't jam, it doesn't make noise except when printing, although it does take a few seconds to warm up from sleep. I think we've been on the same cartridge since she graduated several years ago. I usually two-bag consumables, so there may be a really sludgy unopened cartridge in a closet. Had it been expensive, I'd say you get what you pay for, but I don't think it was over $300 or $400 at the time.