The cost of running printers has been with us for years. Generally cost per copy is much less on a Laser than an Inkjet - but horses for courses - low volume I'd go for inkjet and if I was printing say 10 pages+ a day I'd go laser.
Many years back a chap I know used to sell printers to large users. Particular customer road tested some 3/4 brands over a month before buying. Had machines delivered and evaluation looked at the usual speed to print and quality, paper handling etc HOWEVER running cost was No 1. They did not trust the pagecost of manufacturer' (which were known to be optimistic).
The evaluators ordered genuine cartridges from a 3rd party retailers to avoid tampering of the toner & then ran them until the toner light came on after printing the exact same rubbish on all samples. Friend got the order, 2,500 over some 6 months was the initial order and more followed. Later the evaluation was given to all suppliers the cost per page of the winner was about 1/2-2/3rds of any of the others.
The mistake the Bank made was they mistakenly ordered & received the Hi-Capacity cartridge which did roughly twice the copies for about 1.5 x the ££ but did not realise this at the time. £5 million order based on flawed tests - today the cost would be much less than £1m and be faster & colour BUT toner would still be expensive.
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