Many folks here have touted the benefits of laser jet over ink jet. I concur for a variety of reasons: cost of supplies and HP's nasty ways of forcing people to use only their ink. So I have been looking into the costs for my particular low-use situation. From data over the last two years, I estimate my usage to be about 123 color and 425 black pages per year. It costs about $67 per year for the ink.
A Brother MFC9340DCW was recommended here. Assuming my usage remains the same I estimate the toner would cost $25 per year on a sustained basis, but I would likely not use up the original cartridges, so maybe I should consider the toner costs to be zero. This places my savings at $67/yr minus interest on $300. Now I would have to restructure the desk I am using--the Brother would not fit without some creative carpentry. So I wonder if it would be worth the bother. The financial benefit is not the only driver for such low usage. Am I leaving something out, such as print quality? -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
