If I could, I would rate this printer 4.5 stars (I virtually always find the 5 point scale inadequate to rate things accurately).

The break-even point is when the cost of the ink for the HP reaches $300, if it's before the Epson runs out at around 11,200 typical pages

Here are some break-even points for different levels of use for $80 vs $330, in case it drops again:For 100 typical mixed black/white and color pages a month: 4 years, 2 months.150 pages a month: 2 years and 9 months.200 or 300: 2 years and 1 month.400: 18 months.500: 14 months

Both Canon laser printers fell at approximately $1,550 in our evaluation (the 731 was slightly lower due to its larger capacity cartridges and slightly more favorable price point per page).For inkjets, I evaluated an HP 8710 and a Canon Pixma G4200 as having comparable quality copying output, but the time it took to generate a copy was unacceptable

I concede that point

The size of the printer (smaller that H/P) is nice however I would rather have better capacity for paper handling and faster copy speed7

90's level non-printing piece-o-junk just to save money on ink

I sort of miss not having an automatic document

n’t have complicated OCR work to do anymore and that’s why I stopped using ABBYY in the first place

n’t have to scratch with your fingernail to grasp it