HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3101fdw Cost Per Page: A Costly Spot Among Mono Lasers
The HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3101fdw is a mono laser all-in-one that prints, copies, scans and faxes, with a touchscreen and Wi-Fi built in. It sells for $380. Black toner costs $5.00 per 100 pages to run.
The HP-138X cartridge behind that rate costs $150 and is rated for 3,000 pages — there is no color cartridge to weigh in, since this is a black-only machine. Across every type of printer InkTax tracks, the 3101fdw ranks 74th of 97 on black-and-white cost per page, and its standing gets worse once the field narrows to its own class.
Its closest match in HP's own mono laser lineup, the LaserJet Pro 3001dw, lands on the identical $5.00 per 100 pages — a tie that puts both at 20th of 23 mono laser printers InkTax tracks on black cost per page. The 3001dw sells for $250 but drops copy, scan, fax and the touchscreen. Further down HP's line, the LaserJet M209dw sells for $199, undercuts both at $4.37 per 100 pages, and keeps Wi-Fi; the wire-only M209d sells for $159 and lacks Wi-Fi and Ethernet.
Canon's imageCLASS MF264dw II matches the HP feature for feature — print, copy, scan, fax, a touchscreen, Wi-Fi — yet sells for $229 and runs black text at $4.43 per 100 pages, undercutting the 3101fdw on both price and cost to run.
The running-cost floor among mono laser printers, the LaserJet Pro 4006dw, holds toner to $2.23 per 100 pages, but it drops to print-only and sells for $400 up front.