Low Printing Cost : Laser Vs Inkjet

CheapSticks on 23/05/2020 - 10:05

hi Guys

Need recommendation for printer. With WFH, I bought HP Envy 5020 ($50 printer) from officeworks. Can get the HP XL ink for $30 each for Black and Color from InkStation thats supposed to print 300 pages. But I am finding I am printing a lot mostly B&W and some color too and also its using way more ink. In the last 1.5 months, I have used 3 black and almost 2 colour ($150) ink cartridges and hv printed perhaps 600 -700 pages.

Any thoughts if the above usage is typical or printer is not efficient?

Should I go for laser printer as they are suppose to cost less per print? Recommendations pls

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Comments

  • Boioioioi on 23/05/2020 - 10:55
    +4

    Laser printers are waaaay cheaper to run. Inkjet is good if you need like high quality photo printing.

    For documents, laser all the way. I have a cheap $50 Fuji Xerox laser printer. I buy knock off cartridges from ebay, like 2 for $30. The cartridge lasts me about a year, thousands of pages of B&W printing per cartridge.

    • CheapSticks on 23/05/2020 - 11:13

      Thank you..thats what I need..

      Can I pick up a cheap laser printer and it will do the job? Any model recommendations pls

      • Boioioioi on 23/05/2020 - 11:50
        +1

        Yeah man for sure. Personally I use a B&W laser printer for my documents. Colour ones are expensive.

        Since I barely ever need a colour print, I just keep a colour inkjet just for those ones.

        For the laser printer, just get the cheapest name brand one you can find. Look on eBay to make sure that you can easily source knock-off cartridges on the cheap.

    • barozgain on 23/05/2020 - 12:15

      @boioioioi can you pls link me with the bay seller

      • Boioioioi on 23/05/2020 - 21:26

        Varies for various printers mate. Just have a search and choose a seller with a good rating who is located in Australia. I actually found one quite local to me and pick up the toner locally to save postage time sometimes.

  • whooah1979 on 23/05/2020 - 10:57

    One Ecotank may last for 3 years.

    • CheapSticks on 23/05/2020 - 11:14

      Dont the cartridges dry?

      • whooah1979 on 23/05/2020 - 11:20

        Print one page a day and you'll be fine.

  • Melb69 on 23/05/2020 - 11:43
    +3

    Just go a BW Brother Laser Duplex model and use high yield generic toner cartridges. Plenty of posts.

  • Diggins on 25/05/2020 - 08:47
    +1

    brother printers are pretty good and yeah, go laser if you can

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