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| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: tooki on February 05, 2023, 07:05:14 pm --- --- Quote from: themadhippy on February 05, 2023, 06:32:00 pm --- --- Quote ---And lasers are just as bad about including tiny “starter” cartridges. (In fact, they may be worse.) --- End quote --- wouldn't call 1000 pages tiny ,yea its 40% of a new cartridge,but 7 years on the black tonner is still at 6 bars out of 10 cyan yellow and magenta at 8 out of 10. --- End quote --- Entry level models often come with <500 page starter cartridges. --- End quote --- Mine came with a 1500 page.. and made it to 600 or so before a firmware update rejected the starter cartridge. Lexmark were very helpful in shipping me a full 5000 page cartridge next-day for free when I complained. They're probably not so helpful about their defective pick tyres, but those weren't too expensive to buy. Once I found some. |
| MarkS:
The Brother HL-L2300D ($120) that I linked to on page one has a $60 toner cartridge that prints up to 2600 pages. That's $0.02 per page. :-// |
| pcprogrammer:
I bought my HP MFP M182n for 199,99 euro. No idea if the cartridges are startup ones, but I will be happy if they do 500 pages. With maybe 30 or even 50 pages a year it will last quite some time. But yes getting new HP toner for it is expensive and works out to ~17 cents a page if they indeed last 1350 pages and you print full color all the time. I did see a four pack (Black and all the colors) for <60 euros but that page does not list MFP M182n as compatible with so most likely a google fluke. Cheep toner It would drop the page price 8) Edit: A bit of a peeve is all the different models of cartridges these manufacturers develop. Makes finding the matching one a bit of a job. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on February 05, 2023, 07:44:35 pm ---Edit: A bit of a peeve is all the different models of cartridges these manufacturers develop. Makes finding the matching one a bit of a job. --- End quote --- How about reading the manual? >:D And some websites make it simple by allowing to select the printer for which you want to buy a cartridge. |
| paulca:
Laser photo printing isn't exactly great compared to an inkjet though. I have photos printed by InkJet in frames on my wall and holding a similar print from the laser up beside ... there is no comparison. I tweaked every setting I could, even ran it through various optimizers. "Good", yes, the same quality as an Inkjet in photo mode on photo quality paper, no comparison. The photo paper for the laser has to be feed in the alternative feeder as it's thick and shiny and quite often jams the printer or slips and output has stripes/streaks. The trouble is... one of those A4 photo prints on the HP Inkjet took over an hour and used 10% of a cartridge. EDIT. Obviously this does not apply to "all" laser printers. The local print shop has a laser printer which will layout ink that's so thick you can catch your nail on the edge of it. Basic colour office printers.... nope. |
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