Brother MFC-L2820DW Mono Laser All-in-One Printer vs HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer
What separates them
These two differ on 9 recorded specifications. The Brother MFC-L2820DW Mono Laser All-in-One Printer is $50.00 dearer. They are different kinds of product — mono laser mfp against ink tank mfp — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Brother MFC-L2820DW Mono Laser All-in-One Printer vs HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer
Brother
Brother MFC-L2820DW Mono Laser All-in-One Printer
$249.99
The multi-function sibling of the HL-L2460DW, adding a 50-sheet feeder, a scanner and a fax for about a hundred dollars.
Full details →HP
HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer
$199.99
Refillable tanks rather than cartridges is what changes the arithmetic: a bottle set covering roughly 6,000 black and 8,000 color pages costs about as much as one laser cartridge.
Full details →Who the Brother MFC-L2820DW Mono Laser All-in-One Printer is for
Buy it if: Small offices wanting laser output, scanning and a feeder without cartridge restrictions.
Avoid it if: Anyone scanning two-sided documents in volume, who needs a duplex feeder.
Who the HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer is for
Buy it if: Home offices printing color regularly and wanting the lowest cost per color page.
Avoid it if: Sites that print in bursts weeks apart, where a laser will not clog and this will.
Specifications, side by side
9 of 14 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Brother MFC-L2820DW Mono Laser All-in-One Printer | HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $249.99 | $199.99 |
| Connectivity | Ethernet, Wi-Fi and USB | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB |
| Cost per page | About 3 cents on TN760, excluding drum and paper | About 0.5 cents mono and 1.5 cents color, excluding paper |
| Document feeder | 50-sheet ADF | None -- flatbed glass only |
| Duplex | Automatic two-sided printing, single-sided scanning | Manual only |
| Duty cycle | Up to 20,000 pages a month maximum | Up to 3,000 pages a month maximum |
| Print resolution | 1200 x 1200 dpi | 1200 x 1200 dpi black, 4800 x 1200 dpi color |
| Print speed | Up to 36 ppm, Letter mono | Up to 12 ppm mono, 5 ppm color, draft |
| Rated power | About 550 W printing, 0.7 W in sleep | About 12 W printing |
| Warranty | 1-year limited warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty |
| Drum unit | DR730, about 15,000 pages, replaced separately | not published |
| Input tray | 250 sheets | not published |
| Page yield per refill | not published | About 6,000 black and 8,000 color pages |
| Replacement cartridge | Brother TN760, about 3,000 pages | not published |
| Replacement ink | not published | HP 32XL black and HP 31 color bottles |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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