Re: Help buying Economic Printer

[terryc <debianhelp@woa.com.au>]

Your cost per page really depends on how many pages, in total you are going to print.

Inkjets are relatively expensive per page, unless you get yumcha ink at exceedingly good prices. ever noticed how you can buy a inkjet printer for less that the costof the refills? 

If you want a cheap cents per page laser, then you really need to go back to something based on the Canon SX engine, like a HP Laserjet II, Gestetner, etc, etc. with so many machine using the same toner cartridge, the cost of tower per page was the lowest ever. Still is.

Now, if you really want low cost per page, mono, look at a good dot matrix printer. something like the NEC P6300, will do everything you want. Yes, including graphs and graphics. Not as good as postscript, but perfectly clear and usable.