Looking for a compact laser printer for home use

gouf78
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:38:13 +0000

We have a Brother Laser printer suggested to us years ago by a techie (we had HP and got fed up with the expense of ink!) Still going strong. the cartridges are expensive when replaced ($50-70) (but last a LONG time so cheaper in the long run) We buy cartridges off the internet. We don’t print photos (actually cheaper to go through Sam’s Club or another discount house since they eat up enormous amounts of ink). For simple printing, it’s been great (knock on wood!).
HP ink (and one reason it’s expensive) is one of the best archival inks around–so if the purpose is photos and you want to keep them a long time, it may be best even though expensive.
Careful though (this may have changed I don’t know)–printing a B&W photo may actually be eating up your color cartridges to produce black rather than using the black ink to produce a picture.