My old Lexmark laser printer used to come with huge toner cartridges that lasted about 1.5 years. Since I replaced it with an HP 1320 laser printer (love that duplex printing!), I've had to live with cartridges that last half as long.
Today I comparison shopped for a new cartridge, and the price differences were eye-opening! The 1320 uses the '49A cartridge:
FutureShop.ca -- $113
Staples.ca -- $88
LondonDrugs.ca -- $85
CorporateExpress.ca -- $84
BestBuy.ca -- not available
But then I found a better money saver at CorporateExpress.ca: a two-pack of the '49X high-capacity cartridge for $303 ($151.50 each). Each prints 6000 pages, versus 2500 pages for the '49A.
At 2.4x less output, the A cartridge would have to be priced at $63 to be competitive with the X one. (Or, to put it the other way around, you'd spend $270 on '49A cartridges purchased from FutureShop to print as many pages as one '49X cartridge from Corporate Express.)
A few minutes comparison shopping on Web sites saved me $120.
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