-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2008-10-21 at 16:40 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Price per page is much better for laser printing. You can find both manufacturer official quotes on these numbers as well as end-user experiences on various on-line consumer ratings sites, including Amazon.com.
If you need color, it's probably a different story, but that's not something I know about, since B&W is fine for all my needs.
I bought one recently, a cp1515n. I thought that the estimate was about 1000 pages per toner cartridge, and it uses four (BW 64€, the 3 colours 59€ each; the printer was 234€ (all without taxes), so the toner is as expensive as a new printer). But when I looked at the HP supplies page, it now says "2000 pages", so I'm confused. I don't know if they have changed the numbers, or the cartridges that came with the printer are half-loaded (complimentary). So, at 1000 pages, each page would cost 0.241€, and half that at 2000 pages. I don't have figures for inkjets, but it is cheaper that my old inkjet, considering that when I left it unused for two weeks it dried and I had to hand-clean it, wasting ink. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj+cI8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VDlACZAX8OZ5WuHy3Q/AAHE1+yxU7L 3VYAn2L+BsnN3AqZMCyOZdpcaAe6Ulb5 =wHV4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----