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Printer Cost Calculator

Estimate the purchase and running costs of a printer using your own printing habits.

Calculate your printer costs

Enter how many pages you print, the mix of black and colour pages, your ownership period and a purchase price. Review the cost of replacement ink or toner and any applicable maintenance parts beside your result.

TrueCost · Printer cost calculator

What will this printer really cost?

Compare purchase, consumable and mandatory maintenance costs for your own printing pattern.

Choose how much you print

Purchase-price state: unavailable No price is described as current. Enter your own price below to include acquisition cost.
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Includes printer purchase price when supplied, approved ink or toner, and mandatory maintenance parts. Paper can be added as an optional scenario cost; electricity remains excluded.

Basic inputs

pages/month
Select a preset or enter a whole number.
Printing mix
The two values must total 100%.
Ownership period
Printers to compare

Select one or more. No printer is preselected.

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Advanced inputs

Inspect the material assumptions used by the calculation. Replacement consumable and mandatory maintenance prices, published yields and initial credits, starter supplies, custom ownership and real-world yield are editable; other advanced assumptions remain inspectable and unchanged.

Ink and toner Sourced replacement prices and yields for each selected printer

Adjust replacement ink or toner prices and published yields for this scenario. The sourced profile remains unchanged.

HP DeskJet 2922

£
Sourced replacement price: £19.49.
mono_page
Sourced published replacement yield: 160 mono_page. Real-world yield is adjusted separately.
£
Sourced replacement price: £17.50.
colour_page
Sourced published replacement yield: 120 colour_page. Real-world yield is adjusted separately.

Epson EcoTank ET-2870

£
Sourced replacement price: £10.49.
mono_page
Sourced published replacement yield: 4500 mono_page. Real-world yield is adjusted separately.
£
Sourced replacement price: £31.47.
colour_page
Sourced published replacement yield: 7500 colour_page. Real-world yield is adjusted separately.

Brother DCP-L2620DW

£
Sourced replacement price: £107.36.
mono_page
Sourced published replacement yield: 3000 mono_page. Real-world yield is adjusted separately.
Starter supplies Sourced included starter yields for each selected printer

Adjust the included starter ink or toner credit for this scenario. Enter 0 when no starter supply is included; the sourced profile remains unchanged.

HP DeskJet 2922

mono_page
Sourced included starter yield: 100 mono_page. Enter 0 when none is included in this scenario.
colour_page
Sourced included starter yield: 60 colour_page. Enter 0 when none is included in this scenario.

Epson EcoTank ET-2870

mono_page
Sourced included starter yield: 3600 mono_page. Enter 0 when none is included in this scenario.
colour_page
Sourced included starter yield: 6500 colour_page. Enter 0 when none is included in this scenario.

Brother DCP-L2620DW

mono_page
Sourced included starter yield: 700 mono_page. Enter 0 when none is included in this scenario.
Maintenance Sourced mandatory-part values for each selected printer

Adjust a mandatory maintenance part's replacement price, published yield and initial installed-part credit for this scenario. The sourced profile remains unchanged.

HP DeskJet 2922

Epson EcoTank ET-2870

Brother DCP-L2620DW

£
Sourced replacement price: £118.85.
mono_page
Sourced published replacement yield: 15000 mono_page. Real-world yield is adjusted separately.
mono_page
Sourced initial installed-part credit: 15000 mono_page. Enter 0 when no initial credit is included in this scenario.
Real-world yield 100% of published yield for each selected printer

Adjust how much of the published ink or toner yield you expect to achieve. This changes the scenario only; it does not change the manufacturer’s published figure.

%
100% uses the published yield. Enter a value greater than zero.
%
100% uses the published yield. Enter a value greater than zero.
%
100% uses the published yield. Enter a value greater than zero.
PaperOff

Paper is optional and remains excluded until you enable it. Enter your own scenario assumptions; no paper price is described as current or sourced.

£
Enter your paper cost for one sheet as a non-negative GBP amount.
Sheets used per printed page The default, unspecified and single-sided choices apply 1 sheet per page. Double-sided applies 0.5.
sheets/page
Used only when the custom choice is selected. Enter a value greater than zero.
ElectricityOff

Electricity remains excluded. No operating-time, power or tariff value is applied.

Ownership Choose 1, 3, 5 years or custom
Custom ownership period
months
Enter a whole number from 1 to 120 months.
Calculation viewsProrated headline; scheduled cash details shown with each result

The headline result remains prorated. Scheduled cash purchases are shown separately with each printer result and are not a payment schedule.

Clears this calculator's scenario and restores sourced and page-load values.

Your cost result

Choose a usage amount, ownership period and at least one printer. Purchase prices are optional; without them, running-cost-only results remain available.

Monthly equivalentUnavailable Total cost of ownershipUnavailable Consumables cost per pageUnavailable Ownership cost per pageUnavailable

Results using a visitor-entered price label it as a user price. Missing purchase prices never become zero.

Amazon affiliate links never change the calculation, comparison or product order.

A purchase price is required for a total ownership cost. Paper is optional and off by default; electricity remains excluded.

Understand the estimate

Published consumable yields are standardised estimates; your actual use can differ. The total depends on your chosen period, print volume, prices and the supplies credited with the printer. Review the assumptions in the calculator before comparing options.

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Printer cost guides

Use these worked examples to understand which assumptions matter before comparing your own printer costs.