Looking to purchase a printer that ONLY uses Black & White ink

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#306514 30-Jul-2023 22:02

Hi there,

I'm looking at potentially purchasing a new printer, need it for work

We only print off documents, and therefore only use the black ink - Is there anything out there that ONLY requires black ink? Even if it has to have coloured ink cartridges in the printer itself, I don't want it.

Hoping someone can recommend one, budget would be $100 I guess, not entirely sure of the cost

Thank heaps!

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#3109908 30-Jul-2023 22:10

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/PTRHPL070661/HP-LaserJet-Pro-M110we-Printer-World-smallest-prin

Not a recommendation; just the result of a search....

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#3109909 30-Jul-2023 22:14

Mono laser?

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/PTRBRT1210/Brother-Home-HL1210W-Mono-laser-Wireless-Printer-f

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#3109912 30-Jul-2023 22:19

Laser FTW. Avoid ink these days.

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#3109930 31-Jul-2023 00:55

Finch:

Hi there,

I'm looking at potentially purchasing a new printer, need it for work

We only print off documents, and therefore only use the black ink - Is there anything out there that ONLY requires black ink? Even if it has to have coloured ink cartridges in the printer itself, I don't want it.

Hoping someone can recommend one, budget would be $100 I guess, not entirely sure of the cost

Thank heaps!

For your brief a mono laser would be my choice.

They use toner, a black powder which gets baked onto the pages with heat, rather than wet ink that soaks in and drys.

I have had a good run with brother.

Would recommend getting something with a proper 250 sheet paper tray in the base, auto duplex etc, rather than one of the Bargen basement entry model's posted above.

Smiths city is doing clearnce of some at the moment:

https://www.smithscity.co.nz/computers-and-phones/computing/printers/brother-hll2375dw-wireless-mono-laser-printer-9065604

or if you want a built in scanner / copier too:

https://www.smithscity.co.nz/computers-and-phones/computing/printers/brother-mfc-l2713dw-all-in-one-mono-laser-printer-9065605

Note the included toners only have a yeild of about 700 pages.

Genuine high yield toners yield about 3000, for $153. About 5c a page which is pritty good (even if amusingly higher than the cost of the printer).

It is not economical to replace the drum in those cheap lasers printers, so once the drum needs replacement (about 15,000 pages), you are better off to through out the entire printer and get a new one. Pritty sad from an environmental point of view.

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#3109935 31-Jul-2023 06:01

@Finch

I have this one in use and I’m VERY happy with it. It‘s over your budget but it will save a lot of operating costs (unbeatable ;-) and it‘s a network printer with a print server.

- NET: FTTH & VDSL, OPNsense, 10G backbone, GWN APs
- SRV: 12 RU HA server cluster, 0.1 PB storage on premise
- IoT: thread, zigbee, tasmota, BidCoS, LoRa, WX suite, IR
- 3D: two 3D printers, 3D scanner, CNC router, laser cutter

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#3109951 31-Jul-2023 08:21

Another vote for a mono laser. My wife bought one for printing out her sewing patterns about 5 yrs ago and think we've replaced the toner in it once in that time.

We have this one. Cheap, cheerful but it just works.

Brother HL1210W

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#3109958 31-Jul-2023 08:49

Scott3:

....Smiths city is doing clearnce of some at the moment:

https://www.smithscity.co.nz/computers-and-phones/computing/printers/brother-hll2375dw-wireless-mono-laser-printer-9065604

I have one of these and it's great - I got sick of feeding expensive ink cartridges into a printer and them drying out or getting used up. I still have an inkjet for occasional colour use and scanning, but laser is used 95% of the time. The auto duplex in this one works really well, and you can direct print from phones (mine is only connected via WiFi).

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#3109963 31-Jul-2023 09:17

shk292:

Scott3:

....Smiths city is doing clearnce of some at the moment:

https://www.smithscity.co.nz/computers-and-phones/computing/printers/brother-hll2375dw-wireless-mono-laser-printer-9065604

I have one of these and it's great - I got sick of feeding expensive ink cartridges into a printer and them drying out or getting used up. I still have an inkjet for occasional colour use and scanning, but laser is used 95% of the time. The auto duplex in this one works really well, and you can direct print from phones (mine is only connected via WiFi).

Same - I bought this one a couple weeks ago for this same price $98 - after looking on TradeMe etc for used ones they were more expensive. Can get cheap-ish 3rd party toners when it runs out. Also completely sick of not being able to print a document because cyan is empty!

And this one prints both sides of the page (duplex) can't go wrong.

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#3110024 31-Jul-2023 12:20

Can also recommend a Brother mono laser. I've had an HL-2140 for at least 10 years. Only on it's third toner cartridge - it just keeps going and going. Only has USB connectivity, so added a Raspberry Pi to make it networkable along the way.

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#3110034 31-Jul-2023 12:46

The Brother lasers are very reliable - they get a +1 from me.

Be cautious if looking at HP lasers - They are 'ok', but HP did an awful thing a while back where they pushed out some 'updates' to their printers where they will refuse to work with 3rd part toners.

There are a few ways to get around this - but it wasnt good that HP did that.

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#3110049 31-Jul-2023 13:18

Avoid consumer HP printers. Their software and drivers are a nightmare along with the above. They've been pretty bad since 10 years or so ago.....

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#3110051 31-Jul-2023 13:20

Another vote for Brother mono laser. Ours is a MFC-L2713DW. Was cheap as chips, and just seems to keep going. We use the scanner a lot.

Hated inkjets. They waste vast amounts of expensive ink pumping through self cleaning and it all gets mopped up in a soggy sponge. Yuck.

I would only get an inkjet if I needed to print photographs. If I needed to print colour documents I would get a colour laser.

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#3110123 31-Jul-2023 14:29

If you need to print colour photos, best answer is to go to Warehouse Stationery or use Snapfish, or similar. Cheaper and higher quality

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#3110146 31-Jul-2023 16:15

Scott3:

Would recommend getting something with a proper 250 sheet paper tray in the base, auto duplex etc, rather than one of the Bargen basement entry model's posted above.

Smiths city is doing clearnce of some at the moment:

https://www.smithscity.co.nz/computers-and-phones/computing/printers/brother-hll2375dw-wireless-mono-laser-printer-9065604

or if you want a built in scanner / copier too:

https://www.smithscity.co.nz/computers-and-phones/computing/printers/brother-mfc-l2713dw-all-in-one-mono-laser-printer-9065605

Note the included toners only have a yeild of about 700 pages.

Genuine high yield toners yield about 3000, for $153. About 5c a page which is pritty good (even if amusingly higher than the cost of the printer).

It is not economical to replace the drum in those cheap lasers printers, so once the drum needs replacement (about 15,000 pages), you are better off to through out the entire printer and get a new one. Pritty sad from an environmental point of view.

I find it is often the fuser that fails with laser printers and you end up with bits of black plastic being spat out when that happens . I repaired my last semi commercial HP laser by opening it up and replacing the fuser and it is now working ok, but was about $100 to buy off aliexpress, and quite a fiddly job. Probably would have been better buying one of these, even though my semi commerical one takes 500 pages and is very fast at printing. Unfortionalety Smiths City don't have click and collect in the Wellington region.

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#3110154 31-Jul-2023 16:33

Reminds me... our Brother 7065DN has a dying fuser... probably cheaper to buy new printer :) Otherwise the thing has been running for 10 years with just replacement toner/drums.

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