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I had an HP all-in-one inkjet ten years ago with a black cartridge and a color cartridge. I'd print every 3 months or so. Every time I would print, I'd find both cartridges had dried out. I'd end up spending $80 every time I wanted to print, about 4 times a year. Seen another way, I was paying something like $320 to print maybe 20 pages a year--or a whopping $16 a page.

I bought an HP black-and-white LaserJet maybe 8 years ago as toner doesn't dry out. I paid around $150 for it. I finally ran down the "sample" toner cartridge--with a reduced capacity--about 2 years ago. I'm on my first real toner cartridge ($80) and I expect it to last me a decade.

So for $230 over 8 years, I've spent $30 a year on printing.