Canon imageCLASS MF264dw II Cost Per Page: Drum Wear Baked Into the $4.43 Rate
The Canon imageCLASS MF264dw II is a mono laser printer that copies, scans and faxes in addition to printing, with Wi-Fi and a touchscreen built in, and it sells for $229. Printing in black costs $4.43 per 100 pages — the only color it makes.
That black rate isn't just the CN-051H-BK cartridge, which costs $160 for a 4,100-page yield. A drum priced at $122 and rated for 23,000 pages folds into the same figure, so cartridge price and yield alone don't add up to what a page actually costs here.
The MF264dw II ranks 19th on black cost per page among the 23 mono laser printers InkTax tracks, in the bottom third of the class. Its sibling, the imageCLASS MF275dw, runs at $4.28 per 100 pages for $238 — essentially even on both counts — but drops the touchscreen this Canon carries.
The running-cost floor among mono laser printers is the HP LaserJet Pro 4006dw, at $2.23 per 100 pages. That's far below the Canon's $4.43. The HP costs $400 up front, far more than the Canon's $229, and prints only, without copying, scanning or faxing, while topping out at 47 ppm against the Canon's 30 ppm.
The HP LaserJet M209d costs $159, well under the Canon's sticker, and runs at $4.37 per 100 pages, close enough to the Canon's rate to call it even, but it has no Wi-Fi, no Ethernet, and only prints — no copy, scan or fax.