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Based on ink/toner prices at NewEgg and page estimates at the manufacturers' sites, the Xerox costs $0.05 a page ($0.03 if you assume just black)


Kyocera: $0.004 per page (making the Xerox nearly 10 times as expensive!), but that is somewhat of an apples/oranges comparison because our Kyocera is a black-only (i.e., not color) printer.

A big reason the Kyocera's CPP is so low is that they do not replace the drum/developer with toner change, that is, it is not an all-in-one cartridge replacement like HP and others do. The drum has an extra-hard surface, the toner contains polishing elements, and drum life is warranteed to be at least 500,000 copies before replacement is required.

There are downsides to the Kyocera. The print drivers are not as robust as HPs for instance -- printing multi-page Excel spreadsheets is slow, and graphics quality is not up to HP standards. But for our text-only purposes, Kyocera is a winner.

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