Non-color laser printer for under $100

 Is that unreasonable to ask for?

  aesthete8 wrote:


Nope, particularly if it doesnt need to be new.

 On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, aesthete8 wrote:


I paid $15 for my HP-4P about 2003, it had a ridiculously small page
count on it.  The access panel for the memory expansion was missing,
and it had a third party cartridge in there which didn't last, leaving me
thinking someone swapped a more used cartridge before donating it to the
Rotary Club sale I bought it at.  It's never given me trouble, for a few
years I was printing a lot and I rapidly went through a cartridge (a
cartrdige refilled by a third party).

I bought my first laser printer in 2001, for $25, which seemed a good deal
too. But, it was a less common manufacturer and when it stopped printing
properly, I put it aside  because I wasn't sure if merely refilling it
would fix the problem.  I might have tackled it, but just when I needed it
the HP came along, and the prices were so low that I wasn't fussy.

I've seen laser printers waiting for the garbage truck at this point,
surely a sign that they have dropped in price.  Certainly there are under
a hundred dollar laser printers, I have no idea how good they are.  But if
they are being tossed out, they are being treated like inkjet printers,
toss rather than refill.

    Michael

 On 11/2/2010 8:20 PM, Michael Black wrote:

Likely they are being tossed for the same reason many inkjets are. The
cheap printers piled up in the big box all share one thing in common.
Low acquisition price and high operational cost because the manufacturer
needs to make something and they didn't make anything on the original sale.

 
Brother HL-2140 (about $80., at Amazon)
(can use cheap generic toner)