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Originally Posted by Dahabs
Big fan of HP LaserJet printers. Toner is may seem more expensive but doesn't need to be replaced as often, doesn't dry up and I suspect the cost per page is no worse than ink. I replaced my last HP printer with a 4 in 1 with Bluetooth (HP LaserJet Pro MFP M127). I did own a Brother years ago but have found that I have fewer issues with HP.
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Cost per page is significantly higher with a laser printer compared to ink.
I used to work at Staples, we sold several brands. I always favored the HP 2-cartridge inkjet printers. One black, the second has the color.
Ink is dirt-cheap if you go the Instant Ink route. You pay by the page rather than how much ink you use. So you can print 100 full 4-color glossy photos on 8*10 photo paper, and pay the same amount per month that you'd pay for 100 black and white letters to family.
Instant Ink is an HP mail-order service. As long as your printer is connected via wifi, Instant Ink can tell how much ink is left in your printer, calculate the number of pages printed, and send you ink BEFORE you need it, right to your mailbox. It's an auto-pay service.
I pay $2.99/month to print 50 pages per month since I don't print much. If I don't print all 50 pages in a month, the leftover is carried over to the following month. You can stack up to 3 months' worth of leftover pages.
So right now, at the end of January, I've only printed 14 pages the whole month. And I have 150 pages in "rollover pages" I can use. Very handy for people who only print lots of stuff once or twice a year, and hardly ever print anything the rest of the year.
Also good for small businesses that do seasonal brochures and don't print receipts (if they use hand-written receipt books, or e-receipts, for instance).
Also great for people who print their own photographs.
For higher volume, you have options: up to 100 pages per month is $4.99. Up to 300 per month is 11.99. At 500 it goes up to $18.99. For 700, it's $24.99. And if you do heavy volume and print up to 1500 a month on a regular basis, it's $49.99/month.
If you only need it to print out a couple of coupons now and then, you can get up to 15 pages a month for only 99-cents per month.
This is only for wifi-connected HP photo jet ink printers. I have the HP Envy Photo 6455. It goes for around $150 at Staples. It doesn't have an auto-feeder, but the photo printing quality is really terrific.