HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4112fdw Cost Per Page: A 10,000-Page Cartridge Backs a Segment-Best Rate
The HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4112fdw is a mono laser printer that prints, copies, scans and faxes, with a touchscreen, Wi-Fi and automatic duplexing built in. It sells for $650 and costs $2.23 per 100 pages in black, a rate that traces to the HP-161X toner cartridge feeding it.
That toner cartridge costs $223 and is rated for 10,000 pages — the pairing behind the black rate of $2.23 per 100 pages.
The 4112fdw's black cost per page ties for 1st among the 23 mono laser printers InkTax tracks, a spot shared with just one other model, HP's own LaserJet Pro 4006dw. That machine sells for $400 and prints only, without the copy, scan or fax the 4112fdw offers.
One step pricier to run than the 4112fdw is the Canon imageCLASS MF462dw II, at $401 with a black rate of $2.92 per 100 pages — a real gap above the 4112fdw's own rate. It matches the same print, copy, scan and fax lineup, with Wi-Fi, Ethernet and a touchscreen of its own, and prints at 37 ppm.
Further down HP's lineup, the LaserJet M209d and M209dw drop to print-only machines at $159 and $199, each with a black cost of $4.37 per 100 pages, far higher than the 4112fdw's black rate. Neither has a touchscreen, and both top out at 30 ppm against the 4112fdw's 47 ppm. The M209d has neither Wi-Fi nor Ethernet; the M209dw includes both but stays print-only.