Ink arrives in bottles and pours into refillable reservoirs. Costs more to buy and vastly less to feed than a cartridge printer — a black page runs between a third and a half of a cent. The trade is that an inkjet left unused for weeks can clog.
Printers
16
Brands
3
Price range
~$249–$699
Mono page
0.33¢–0.52¢
Cost to own · 5,000 pages
Epson EcoTank ET-2850~$324
~$299 printer + ~$25 supplies
Epson EcoTank ET-3850 (discontinued)~$424
~$399 printer + ~$25 supplies
Epson EcoTank ET-4850 (discontinued)~$524
~$499 printer + ~$25 supplies
Epson EcoTank ET-15000~$724
~$699 printer + ~$25 supplies
Canon PIXMA G3270~$274
~$249 printer + ~$25 supplies
Canon PIXMA G4270~$324
~$299 printer + ~$25 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.
