| There's no denying that the cost of printers is low | | | | and an HP color inkjet printer for $150. A new |
| - unbelievably low, as a matter of fact. You can | | | | Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) toner |
| find brand-name photo printers for under a | | | | cartridge for the Brother printer costs about |
| hundred dollars, and workhorse laser printers for | | | | sixty-five dollars and will print about 2,500 pages. |
| under two hundred dollars. Color inkjet printers | | | | The black ink cartridge for the HP only costs |
| remain a bargain, starting at around a hundred and | | | | about thirty dollars. Great deal, right? No, because |
| twenty-five dollars. If you're not careful, though, | | | | the black ink cartridge will only print about 800 |
| what you save in the purchase price of a printer | | | | pages. The Brother cartridge will give you a cost |
| goes down the drain when you have to buy | | | | per page of a little over two-and-a-half cents, |
| replacement toner cartridges or ink cartridges. | | | | whereas the HP cartridge ups the ante to |
| When deciding which printer to buy, it pays to | | | | three-and-three-quarters cents per page. That |
| determine the cost per page printed. That cost is | | | | may not sound like a lot, but over the course of |
| calculated by the cost of the cartridge you use. | | | | printing the equivalent of ten cartons of paper, or |
| Let's say, for example, that you purchased a | | | | 50,000 pages, you'll pay $625 more for the HP ink |
| black and white Brother Laser Printer for $150 | | | | than you will for the Brother toner. |