We had these massive and expensive color laser printers at the fire department that I worked at. They were incredibly wasteful machines. We didn’t really print that much and we were replacing those $100 toner cartridges all of the time. The output was not that impressive, but it was nearly waterproof.
We do a lot of color printing, continuous ink flow systems were the most convenient for us when we were doing a lot of printing and the ink was a lot cheaper than toner. But I will admit that a little monochrome laser does sound very tempting.
When I was young my dad had a big copier that we could just pour more toner in. It needed other types of maintenance, and that toner was very messy but it sure was nice not to deal with expensive cartridges.
The other nice thing about a laser printer is they’re really fast and the print doesn’t smudge. If you can live without color, a laser printer has lots of advantages. My thinking is I’ll just go to Kinkos if I need color prints. So far in three years that has happened only once. The rest of the time having this fast, tiny, inexpensive monochrome laser has been perfect.