But a full set of (official) toner cartridges will cost you more than the purchase price on the printer. Thus, even color laser printers have finally come down to the same, awful level as inkjet printers.
I'm not sure that's the correct conclusion. Laser printer toner cartridges haven't increased in price on average, it's just that now you have to buy four of them for color laser printing. Just look at those HP Photosmart printers. Those have something like 6 ink cartridges, so you're going to spend way more than you would for a black and white ink printer. Color is more expensive with either technology.
So it's the same it's always been, except now we have affordable ways to print in color with a laser printer.
Lastly, if you only want to print in black and white, you can actually print very cheaply with some ink models. Take
this one, for example.
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