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Lesson learned, for the umpteenth time: Buy cheap, pay twice.
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A mono laser sounds exactly like what you need; any brand name should do.
They are relatively cheap, although the replacement toner cartridge can be expensive ( BUT, the one that comes with the printer has a smaller capacity than the replacement units ).
They are good for occasional use as the print heads don't clog and need cleaning/replacement after a period of inactivity. -
@MigL Yes, I guessed a mono laser might not have the drying /clogging issues from just standing around. This happened to the inkjet I had. The supplied toner with this one has a quarter the capacity of a replacement. A high capacity replacement is actually the cost of a new printer.
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When I wanted to do massive printing I bought the cheapest from the cheapest inkjet printer (Canon Pixma MG2555) for 30 usd (in Christmas holidays promotion). Brand new replacement cartridge for it costed more than half of printer price, IIRC around 20 usd (with built-in heads). I printed the first bunch of pages with original ink, lasted just for couple hundred pages. Then bought refilling kit with syringe for around 5 usd. And managed to print more than 10,000 pages with it (> 5k double sides). I counted that if I would be buying original cartridges or non-original cartridges I would spend more than 1000 usd on ink. I paid total 35 usd for printer and ink. Price of paper and transparent foils for each page costed 175 usd. The most annoying thing was need to swap page to fill 2nd side. It took couple weeks (entire day work) to print the all stuff.
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