Recommend a laser printer for me....

[Anonymous]

DH and i both work from home. We have an all in one color ink jet. Drives me bonkers how often we have to replace the ink. We would like to get a monochrome laser printer to work in tandem with the inkjet. We will continue to use the inkjet for our occasional color printing, and scanning. But i'm an attorney, and i regularly need to print out 50 page contracts and opinions - and this will literally use up the entire cartridge on the ink jet. I don't want to get a color laser printer, because it is just asking for trouble/additional toner costs. Don't care if the laser printer has scanning, etc. Needs to be wifi.

Best reviewed monochrome laser printers are all brother printers that cost less than $100. This seems like it would be a piece of junk. We'd like a quality device, but with low per page costs for text. Can anyone recommend a good monochrome laser printer?

[Anonymous]

Get a Brother.

[Anonymous]

Your intuition is correct a $100 is not going to cut it for heavy duty home office use. Features like paper tray capacity, printing speed, and pages per toner cartridge will reduce how much you have to fuss with the printer, but are not really all that important. What you want to get is a printer with the right "duty cycle" (number of pages per month). Note that the maximum duty cycle is not nearly as important as the recommended number of pages per month. Generally a higher duty cycle is consistent with a cheaper cost per page, but not always.

For example, the $160 HP M102w (https://www.pcmag.com/review/350616/hp-laserjet-pro-m102w?tab=Specs) can theoretically print 10,000 pages per month, but it is only recommended to handle 1500 pages at about $3.90 per 100 pages.

The $200 OKI B412dn (https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476405,00.asp?tab=Specs) is recommended to handle 3,000 pages a month at about $1.90 per 100 pages.

The $780 Oki B721dn (https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425796,00.asp?tab=Specs) is recommended to handle 20,000 pages at about $1.70 per 100 pages.

If you are printing a reasonable amount, the decrease cost per page means more expensive printers come close to paying for themselves (in addition to being the right tool for the job). That said, the B721dn is probably overkill for most home offices (it is designed to handle over a ream of paper a day every day), but the substantially cheaper printers are not going to cut it. Think about how much paper you are buying (ream a day, a week, a month) and use that to decide how heavy duty of a printer you need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a Brother.

+1

Look for recommendations on Wirecutter.com.

[Anonymous]

we have a color laser all in one...
https://www.staples.com/HP-M477fnw-Color-LaserJet-Pro-Multi-Function-Laser-Printer/product_1889398?cid=PS:GooglePLAs:1889398&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=1889398&KPID=1889398&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvf6biou54AIVix6GCh27aQvTEAQYAiABEgKTp_D_BwE

the HP we had before this one lasted through nearly 100,000 copies before one of the belt feeders broke.

getting about 2000 pages before toner runs out.

love HP products...