Looking for a compact laser printer for home use

cobrat
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:42:10 +0000

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Yeah…inkjet printer manufacturers deliberately sell their printers at extremely low prices or even gratis precisely because they’re really making the lion’s share of their money off the ink cartridges. At one startup I worked at…we were going through one cartridge per month which was $30 a pop. Most friends tend to replace theirs once every 2-3 months due to running out of ink or because the ink dried out.

Contrast that with my HP 4L laserjet printer which is not only still running reliably to this day…but I’ve only had to replace the cartridge once in nearly 20 years of usage. Granted…new HP cartridges go for around $70…but they will last at least a decade of medium to heavy use IME.

For B & W printing…it’s much more economical in the long run to go with a laser printer over an inkjet.

Not to mention that laser printers tend to have much better build quality because they tend to target businesses.