Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:20:00 -0700 > Bill Campbell wrote: > > >> One good thing about the HP splatjets is that they are designed so they >> don't clog after long periods of inactivity. >> > > They may not clog, but they do dry out after a while. I have a HP fax machine > that uses a black inkjet cartridge and while I don't receive very many faxes I > find that I have to replace my cartridge once in a while because it dries > out and stops working. It still reads 50-75% full, but it doesn't print. > > In hindsight I should probably have sprung for a laser fax machine but it would > have cost about twice as much as I paid for this inkjet. But toner doesn't dry > out so I would have been ahead by now, I think.... > my $200 brother laser MFC gets 2-3 cases of copier paper out of a $50 toner cartridge. the paper is about $25/case (2000 sheets) so that brings it to about $100 per 4000 pages, or about $0.025/page. every 10000 pages or so I need to replace the drum, thats like $60 more, I think, so that brings it to $0.031/page total.