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Re: Suggest old LASER PRINTER with low operating cost
Thanks for the suggestions. I will investigate those models.
New printers, both inkjet and laser, and much higher cost per page, and far lower build quality. You can find new laser's as low as $60 - just saw one in a weekly ad flyer -- but the toner cartridges are a major cost and cost per page sucks. Likewise, supplies are always most expensive when you have to go the retail store to get them, instead of thru surplus outlets, such as 'fleabay'.
I currently use a 10 year old HP inkjet, and every year I save $200 in printing costs. This is fact vs a modern printer, and I have saved this amount for the past six years. And I replace the ink cartridge far less than these new units of which some models hold as little as 1/8th of the volume of ink as my old unit. Quite pathetic. Of course, these old printers are mainly black and white, parallel port, etc. They would not serve the needs of a lot of people, but they fit my needs perfectly.
Furthermore, these new printer drivers totally suck. They bloat your OS, bombard you with pop-ups about running low on ink-toner-supplies, etc. Sorry, I do not play that game. I'll use an old printer that has simple fat-free driver built into the OS, and have a pleasant printing experience.
Thanks for the model suggestions above. | |
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| MSRP of the LaserJet 4L in 1993: $650
If you take into account CPI and inflation, you would need to fork out roughly $950 for the $650 you paid in 1993.
Let's say you want to spend $500 today for a printer. The LaserJet P3005 has an MSRP of $549. Using MSRP figures for the appropriate HP toner cartridge, it costs $0.022 per page.
If you're buying the same class of printer that you did 10-15 years ago, the cost per page should be the same if not lower. The $100-200 laser printers certainly have a higher TCO, but that's to be expected. | |
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