[mike519]

I long ago gave up on inkjet printers. Since I usually only print a few times a month or so, the ink cartridges were usually clogged. While I could often clean them, too often needed to buy new ones. The cost is one thing but the inconvenience of having to do maintenance just when I wanted to print was madding.

I picked up a rebuilt hp cp2025dn color laser printer on ebay about 6 years ago for about $165. It has been trouble free so far. It takes 4 individual color cartridges. I use cheap 3rd party cartridges (< $15 each) vs the hp ($133 each) ones. I go through a black cartridge about once a year. I replaced the original yellow cartridge after 5 years. The other two cartridges each lasted between 2 and 3 years each. While it does not have built in wireless, by connecting it via Ethernet cable to my router, I get wireless access to it from all the phones and laptops on my network. About the only disadvantage I’ve found is that it weights about 50 pounds! As such, it has not moved since I set it up.

The quality of the printouts is excellent for text and graphics. Color photos not so much.

I would suspect, that few people really need a home color printer and that a cheap B&W laser printer would be fine for occasional times a hard copy is needed.

My incremental cost per (paper and ink) of a mostly text sheet is a little more than 3¢. For color photos, since its usually much more ink dense, perhaps 10¢ per side. As the cost is so low I give no pause to printing hundred page reference documents on occasion.