One of the big issues for me if I need a new laser or any other sort of
printer is if it can be used by a blind person. Increasingly they are going
down the touch screen way. This means that one has every time a problem
occurs or it needs configuring to get a sighted person to help you. My
current very old HP has none of that rubbish, it just plugs into a usb abd
it works. If you get a jam, open it. puull out the drum and toner, unjam,
give it a bit of a clean on its rollers, reassemble, power cycle once and
off it goes once assembled.
Brian

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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Theo wrote:

Obviously toner is the mainline drug they're pushing, but it's almost
worth
buying a second printer to store unopened

Almost?

in order to have a stash of drums, fusers, etc that you can swap into
the other one for less than the price of official spares.
In the case of the cs317dn ...

one printer with starter toners
1400K/750CMY pages = £58

one printer with starter toners plus a set of full toners
4400K/3050CMY pages = £324

five printers with starter toners
7000K/3750CMY = £291

And that's before you consider drums/fusers/waste bottles further down the
line.