Four toners instead of one. Output is dry, permanent and unbothered by a highlighter, which matters for anything filed or handled. A colour page costs many times what it does on a tank printer, though less than on a tri-colour cartridge inkjet.
Printers
5
Brands
3
Price range
~$299–$569
Mono page
3.2¢–5.7¢
Cost to own · 5,000 pages
Brother HL-L3220CDW~$621
~$299 printer + ~$322 supplies
Brother HL-L3280CDW~$666
~$344 printer + ~$322 supplies
Brother MFC-L3780CDW~$891
~$569 printer + ~$322 supplies
HP Color LaserJet Pro M255dw~$756
~$379 printer + ~$377 supplies
Xerox C235 (discontinued)~$876
~$399 printer + ~$477 supplies
purchase priceink or toner. An estimate: purchase price plus 5,000 pages at each printer’s computed cost per page, assuming 4 mono pages for every colour page. Printers whose consumable price we could not source are left out.
