re: #114 Charles

Charles makes the excellent point that laser printers and toner are less expensive than using ink-jet printers. And that remaining black-and-white laser printing rather than going full color can also save. I have seen some references that some of the Brother laser printers are less expensive per page. But have not seen any backing data.

The random and completely unverified cost per page statistics that I remember having seen online are 5-8 cents per black and white laser and 12-15 cents per color page. With some Brother models dropping that to 3 cents per black and white laser page.

For ink-jet, my rule of thumb is around 200-250 pages for a 10 ml black ink cartridge although for my printer HP claims twice that.

I have not looked at the bottled ink printers at this point.