> TN-210Y (for the 200) costs 568 SEK (17500 pages -- coverage ratio not mentioned)
I went through this in costing exercises a few years back. Page yield is an IEC standard @ 5% print coverage
For obvious reasons things drop sharply if you're printing photos - but not as sharply as you might think ((at low coverage levels there's a fair amount of wasted toner and that wastage decreases with saturation/coverage)
And FWIW: 1KG bags of toner are about US$45 in each colour on Aliexpress for just about every printer (white is around 5 times that cost - yes, you can get white toner), whilst 40 gram bottles (the average amount in most desktop printers) are about US$15 per bottle per colour
Compare that to the price of the cartridges (OEM or 3rd party). Yes there's a bit more inside them than just toner but the other bits are worth about $20 and going from a standard to an XL toner normally brings your toner load from 40 to 60 grams (You can pickup what appear to be standard 3rd party cartridges on Aliexpress for around 1/4 their retail figure)
TANK ink is more reasonably retail priced these days but i still find inkjets a pain in the ass to deal with and wish people would buy lasers unless they're printing every day with them
Biting the hand that feeds IT
