brent the two I priced were around $150.00USD which is too rich for me.
I learned long ago in a college marketing class about the Gilette principle. That was a winning marketing method for many years, and it's still making lots of money for printer manufacturers today. It's where you sell 'em a razor for less than it costs you to make it, but you make hudreds of % profit on the blades that cost you nearly nothing to make, and your customers need to keep buying your blades forever.
As long as you're the only source for the blades that fit your razors, and folks have to keep buying them in order to keep their razors working, the money just keeps flowing in like magic. As I remember the case study, it took an anti-trust action to allow other manufacturers to finally sell blades made to fit the Gilette razors, and they did so at a much more reasonable cost.
Today printer manufacturers sell the blades ... er, toner ... to fit their printers. And the printer manufacturers do all they can to keep you buying their expensive toner. My large-format Canon ink-jet printer made salon-quality prints using 10 different colors of ink, and a set of 10 ink cartridges from Canon cost $150. A set of 10 inks from an ink manufacturer cost $30, worked just as well, and lasted just as long.
That printer had an accessory, an adapter that allowed it to print on blank DVDs instead of paper. And Canon included with the printer an editor utility that worked together with that DVD-printing attachment, but they would allow it to work only as long as they could detect that the printer was full of OEM Canon ink cartridges.
I'm not sure how they got away with that these days, but they did, and still do, for all I know. I mention this because if cost of a printer is an issue, it's important to also consider the cost to keep it working. Check out the cost of the toner or ink that it requires, and find out if companies that market toner or ink provide it to fit the printer you're considering buying. Especially if you think you'll be doing a lot of printing with it. The printer manufacturer's web site should let you know how much toner or ink for that model printer would cost from them, and Amazon will tell you how much replacement toner or ink from a third party would cost.
