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Color laser printers are not expensive, but their toner is not that cheap. I think it was estimated to be about 15 cents per color page. If you know better, do let me know - that's what's keeping me away from them.


Most inkjets are more expensive than 15 cents a page even if you don’t count the loss from dried cartridges, priming and cleaning cycles etc.


Toner alone looks to is about $0.10/color page by rated capacity for first party toner, for compatible third-party cartridges, a bit less.

If the printer uses four-color toner so it has pure black, your cost for B&W pages will be significantly less.


I think the goal for consumers here is to look for a printer with a separate black cartridge and print most of your output in B+W mode and not full color.

it looks like brother's do? I'm looking at HL-L3210CW ($199).




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