Budget B&W Printer Both Upfront and Refills?

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  triviums on 27/04/2021 - 21:52

  How many pages are you expecting to print?

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    figarow on 27/04/2021 - 21:55

    About 20 per day.

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  pjetson on 27/04/2021 - 21:57

  +10

  Any Brother laser, with toner from eBay

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    Ethereal Winter on 28/04/2021 - 01:46

    Agreed and the ink doesn't dry up, I have printer that I used to use for uni that I don't use regularly anymore but just printed from today and it's probably been over 5 years without a reload.

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      pjetson on 28/04/2021 - 08:09

      And if you're trying to really reduce your costs, you can often pick up a used Brother laser printer for $20-30 on Facebook Marketplace.

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        Guy Incognito on 28/04/2021 - 08:42

        +1 to this - I picked mine up from Marketplace, in great condition and hardly used. Some people sell them unbelievably cheap.

        Mine was one of these, set me back about $40 from memory.

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  mskeggs on 27/04/2021 - 21:58

  +1

  Got an Epson ecotank refurb a couple of months ago, and it is pretty good.
  https://www.epson.com.au/shoponline/shop/BrowseProducts.asp?…

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    figarow on 27/04/2021 - 22:01

    These look good. Have you filled the tank yet? How does it work exactly, can I use a cheaper generic bottle of ink from ebay?
    These would match the printing cost of laser surely? And without the toner, drums etc overheads.

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      mskeggs on 27/04/2021 - 22:06

      Haven't made a dent in the ink levels yet.
      I checked the prices, and even the branded ink is pretty cheap.
      A cheap mono laser is very cheap to run too, if you can get generic toner.

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  muckingfuppet on 28/04/2021 - 08:39

  I've been using inkstation as my generic ink toner supplier. Very cheap.

  Also, get a mono laser printer, as the toner will really stretch across so many pages. I recently got a Brother Hl-L2305W and it works magic. Easy to set up on wifi too