need a printer advice...

[olblueyez]

Even if you will be printing B&W the printer will be preforming cleaning functions for all the colors and you will end up replacing color cartridges as well. For your high volume B&W I suggest you get an inexpensive B&W laser, and save the inkjet for low volume color and occasional B&W printing. Inkjet + High Volume Copying = crap load of money wasted.

[Don Quichotte]

I bought a cheap Canon b&w laser (LBP2900) since the last time I posted here and I'm very satisfied. I have also learned how to fill the toner cartridge by myself, it's not so very simple because you have to disassemble the cartridge (which also contains the cylinder), but it's not very complicated either. So far I am very happy with my purchase, only negative is that it tends to curl the paper a bit, a problem reported by other users too, but can be ameliorated by changing the paper source setting. Oh, and at 8 or 9ppm it's quite slow, but I don't really mind it. One can finely tune the amount of toner to be used - not only does it have the standard toner save setting, but there is also a 5 step cursor telling the printer to use more toner or less.This makes for a total of 10 steps (5 x 2 (with or without toner save)), which I don't know if it's usual for lasers but I consider it a nice feature. The toner should last 2000 pages in toner save mode - after refiling it, not the half empty starting cartridge - at the overly optimistic 5% page coverage, but I think I printed more and it's still going strong.

[Seaside]

I was about to write my thought, but decided not to because it looks like you already knew differences between laser and inkjet. Now I am curious why you want another one when you already have two working printers?

[Don Quichotte]

No, it's a misunderstanding. I bought the Canon after asking for advice here, now all is good and I don't need another printer. This is just an old thread.