> From: Derek Balling [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 7:20 PM > > +1 to this. I bought an inexpensive all-in-one (HP 276nw) that has been > awesome for me.
According to my calculations: The HP 276nw b/w toner is $86 for 2,400 pages ($0.036 per page) and the CMY toners are each $85 for 1,800 pages ($0.047 per toner per page = $0.14 per page). The Canon PIXMA MX892 b/w ink cartridge is $23 for 500 pages ($0.046 per page) and the CMY cartridges are each $18 for 500 pages ($0.036 per cartridge per page = $0.11 per page) So the difference in print cost is not really relevant. Canon is cheaper for BW, and HP is cheaper for color. Not significantly different in either case. I've had two PIXMA's at home for the last 5 years, and there are never any issues with jets drying up, smudging, etc. They have apparently solved those problems. I also deploy them at work (3 over the last 7 years) ... totally reliable. So I'm acknowledging that the Canon Inkjet and the HP Laserjet are both low cost, reliable, fully featured. The thing that to me is a differentiator, is as follows: Canon PIXMA driver, including network print, scan, fax: 24MB HP Laserjet 276nw driver: They say 47MB for basic, or 110MB for full featured. My experience so far (maybe this is the first exception) is that HP printers come with completely overblown invasive driver software, that constantly harasses you to do upgrades and tries to install with parasite software like bing bar and ask toolbar and junk like that. Maybe that basic driver is good enough nowadays - maybe they've finally turned a corner. But I'm certainly not giving them credit or assuming they've improved. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
