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Originally Posted by floyd_2
I guess things to look out for with colour lasers is the cost of replacement toners, the yield per cartridge, definitely how long you get out of the drum, and whether the drum can be replaced (and how much it would cost to do so). That would get down to how much printing you do of course. I'm nowhere near the end of the drum on my printer after years of service and I believe that the drums only have 15,000 page life spans on this printer. Knowing the price of the drum kit (same price as the printer lol), I'd probably replace the printer if that time eventually came and get fresh warranty with the new printer.
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Hi Dean,
By way of background I spent a considerable amount of my career designing laser printer controllers, that is the electronics inside the printer.
Note that for some time with the Hewlett Packard printers the drum tends
to be integrated with the toner cartridges.
So whenever you change the HP toner cartridges, you also get a brand new
set of drums inside of them.
Over a longer period of time it tends to be mechanisms such as the pickup
rollers that need to be replaced, but replacement kits are readily available
and they are pretty easy to replace.