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Originally Posted by CincyHorseplayer
I am at the point where I think I am going to start printing phonebooks too! Any cost control tips?
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Buy a laser printer, I use Brother brand, they always have a basic model on sale for $60 or less. Use high capacity toner cartridges and shop on Amazon for inexpensive non-OEM brands, though I never use the very cheapest due to too many bad reviews, I order mid-price cartridges which are still less than half the price of Brother cartridges. I have gone through dozens of these with never a problem.
I print in "toner save mode" which is almost indistinguishable print quality from regular mode but yields perhaps an extra 1,000 pages per cartridge.
When your printer says it is time to change the drum, which costs more then a new printer, don't do it if the print quality still looks fine.
I figure it costs me less than $0.45 to print each card.