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I was going to kick in my 2 cents on this ... I've been buying Samsung printers for about two years now. The most recent batch was model ML-1740, at $150 each. Frequently they are available for $100, after a rebate (Best Buy or CompUSA). Toner is the only supply, at about $80 each, good for maybe 4000 pages. Sounds like about $10 per 500 sheets for toner, or two cents per page. I had a bad experience with HP 1100 printers a few years back. We bought about thirty of them, they all started failing right after the warranty period. There was a fix-it kit, but that was a one-time repair that just extended them for another six months. There was a class action suit against HP, the settlement was $10/printer, applied to another HP product. (back then, these printers were $400 including a scanner attachment). I tried to quit buying HP at that point, but two mid-range printers (2200 & 2300) were ordered in a moment of weakness. They both failed at month 13. I still have a few HP Laserjet 4 printers running (moved into individual offices now), those must be over ten years old. And a networked Laserjet 8000, six(?) years old and more than half a million pages is almost always working. Frequently at least one of our three networked Xerox copiers is down - service contracts on those. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the Samsung printers. Given the cost analysis below I should probably look at Dell again, but on the other hand, we already have to stock a half dozen different toners here. On Mar 22, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Peter J Murray wrote: > A follow up on the printer issue. > > I did a printing cost analysis in a spreadsheet, and here are my > numbers. These are based on the following assumptions: Using the best > yield cartridges (usually the most expensive ones for a better price > per > page), Dell requires a drum change every 30,000 pages. > > HP1300 costs $9.62 per 500 sheets for toner. (Yield 4000 pages) > Dell 1700 costs $8.16 per 500 sheets for toner and drum. (Toner Yield > 6000 pages, Drum 30,000) > HP 1012 costs $17.50 per 500 sheets for toner. (Yield 2000 pages, > $69.99) > > Given the Dell 1700 is not that much more than the 1012, and is less > than the 1300, the decision is pretty easy to make. (includes 3 year > warranty).