Brother HL-2170W 23ppm Laser Printer with Wireless and Wired Network Interfaces
Posted by John on August 24th, 2009
It was also time to drop the the old inkjet beast off at the component recycler; wanted to make the most of any drive over there. After considerable research I chose a good home black and white laser printer :
Figuring conservatively (getting 80% of rated service on toner / drum, etc.) and rounding up (to more expensive) it looks to work out to about 3.1 cents per page, for the hardware side of things, over the cost-effective life of the printer before recycling it. (the drum is too expensive; at 12k sheets, it’s less expensive to recycle and start again; of course, 12k will likely never happen for me, hah).
Add paper costs (obtained locally) of another .9 cents for nice, jam-resistant in the past “internal use quality” paper, about 4 cents a page. Costs go down with “more enterprise grade” hardware, but up-front costs sure rise. I will manually duplex the tiny amount of printouts I need per month, since it’s a rare day that I actually print a page. I just got tired of inkjet “tech” drying out, and in my limited experience this isn’t a factor with lasers.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:20 am
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