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Please recommend a cost effective Laser Printer
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[QUOTE="TechD, post: 202309, member: 5027"] Consumable print life is always based on 5% print coverage – therefore if a manufacturer states its toners last for 2000 Pages, chances are you will be printing on higher coverage of about 20% and will therefore only get about 500 prints from them. [I]o [I] Very few manufacturers ship their printers with a full set of supplies. Often they only ship with a starter set giving you anywhere from 25 to 100 prints, this means you will often need to immediately buy another full set of supplies to get printing, adding hundreds of pounds to your original purchase price. Manufacturers do not make their money from the printers they sell, their profits come from the sale of consumables during the lifetime of the printer. In the first year alone a customer can easily spend 5x the value of their printer on supplies. It is the most overlooked aspect of buying a printer, but for people buying their 2nd or 3rd printers it is often the area given the most focus. Consumables between manufacturers vary massively in cost, it is a good rule of thumb that the cheapest colour laser printers and Inkjet printers are normally the most expensive to run. To calculate the running cost of a printer, you need to look at all the consumables it uses and compare the cost of them to the amount of prints they offer – this will give you the cost per page.[/I] [/I] There are other options but it all depends on the volumes you think you will be doing [/QUOTE]
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