Q: more expensive to buy, but what about expense to run, is the general quality any better, and what about reliability. Are they worth the extra cash ? My experience of Inkjet printers is that in general they are tempremental ( cheap ones that is ). I just need a printer for light work, a few documents, and a few snaps enery now and then. thanks
A: The Brother HL-4040CN has a low price; excellent text quality and cost per page (based on Brother's specs) is very good. The high-yield cartridges have a page capacity of 5000 for black and 4000 for each color and cost $93 and $130, respectively. A half-page of black text, therefore, will cost less than 2 cents' worth of toner to print, and a color page (using a small amount of black plus all three colors) will cost less than 12 cents. Standard-capacity cartridges with shorter page lives (and thus higher costs) are also available. Those who know buy laser, those who don't buy inkjet.