Brother MFC-J1260W Ink Cost Per Page: Middling Rates Between a Pricier Rival and a Far Cheaper Tank
The Brother MFC-J1260W is an inkjet printer that prints, copies and scans over Wi-Fi, selling for $80. It runs $7.86 in black and $21.95 in color per 100 pages. The black rate traces to its LC501XLBK cartridge, $39 for 500 pages.
Per 100 pages, the Canon PIXMA TR8620a costs $7.75 in black and $21.50 in color — essentially even with the Brother's own rate. It costs $216, well above the MFC-J1260W's price, and adds fax, automatic duplex, a touchscreen, and Ethernet that the Brother doesn't have.
The MFC-J1260W's $7.86 in black and $21.95 in color, both per 100 pages, tie for 14th on black and 13th on color among the 31 inkjet printers InkTax tracks — a standing shared with two siblings, the MFC-J1360DW and MFC-J1410DW. The MFC-J1360DW costs $110 and adds automatic duplex; the MFC-J1410DW costs $140 and adds both automatic duplex and a touchscreen.
The Canon MAXIFY MB2720 runs $4.17 per 100 pages in black and $13.16 in color, the cheapest inkjet printer to run in the segment. It sells for $216, prints at 24 ppm against the Brother's 16 ppm, and comes with fax, a touchscreen, Ethernet and automatic duplex, none of which the MFC-J1260W offers.
The Canon PIXMA G3270 tank printer sells for $249; per 100 pages it costs $0.38 in black and $0.97 in color, far below the Brother's rate. It matches the MFC-J1260W's mix of print, copy and scan, and shares its lack of automatic duplex and Ethernet.