I've heard that many printers ship with "junior" toner cartridges, which don't have as much toner as their bigger-brother refills, so I wonder if buying a replacement toner cartridge instead of a new printer is actually worthwhile. I've never experimented to find out the truth of this; I print so little that the printer usually jams from dust and oil in the cogs and rubber pickups before the toner runs out. And yes, I've been too lazy to buy a maintenance kit and replace those parts; I've bought a new printer each time.

My first printer did 6ppm and cost me just over a hundred quid. My current printer does 20ppm and set me back fifty.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 12:56, 1 reply)

Yes, the cartridges they provide free with the printer are almost always a smaller version of the replacement ones.
(tyrellsOwl, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 14:30, closed)