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[quote=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.[/quote]

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