HP Smart Tank 7001 Ink Cost per Page: A Rate Shared Within HP's Own Line
The HP Smart Tank 7001 is an ink tank printer that prints, copies and scans, with auto-duplex printing and Wi-Fi built in. It sells for $430. Running costs land at $0.40 in black and $1.22 in color per 100 pages.
The black rate, $0.40 per 100 pages, traces to the HP-32XL-BK cartridge, priced at $24 and rated for 6,000 pages — the source of that black figure alone.
Among the 30 ink tank printers InkTax tracks, the Canon PIXMA G3270 holds the running-cost floor at $0.38 black and $0.97 color per 100 pages, for $249. It skips auto-duplex, a feature the Smart Tank includes.
The Smart Tank ties for 14th of 30 ink tank printers on black cost per page and 13th of 30 on color, a tie of five apiece that includes two same-brand siblings. The Smart Tank 5103 sells for $270 but drops auto-duplex; the pricier Smart Tank 7603 adds fax, Ethernet and a touchscreen for $470.
The Canon MAXIFY GX3020 costs about the same up front at $432, but its running cost lands higher, at $0.52 black and $1.31 color per 100 pages, above the Smart Tank's own.
For color-free printing, HP's own LaserJet Pro 4006dw swaps the tank for toner: $2.23 per 100 pages in black, dropping copying and scanning to print only. It adds a touchscreen and Ethernet, prints far faster at 47 ppm to the Smart Tank's 15 ppm, and sells for $400. Across every type InkTax tracks, the Smart Tank ranks 16th of 97 printers on black cost per page.