HP 206A Black Original LaserJet Toner Cartridge vs HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer
What separates them
These two differ on 2 recorded specifications. The HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer is $110.00 dearer. They are different kinds of product — laser toner cartridge against ink tank mfp — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
HP 206A Black Original LaserJet Toner Cartridge vs HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer
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HP 206A Black Original LaserJet Toner Cartridge
$89.99
About 1,350 pages, which is small for a color laser cartridge, and it is only the black -- a full set of four costs roughly four times this.
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 HP 206A Black Original LaserJet Toner Cartridge is for
Buy it if: Existing Color LaserJet Pro M255 or M283 owners replacing black only.
Avoid it if: Anyone about to buy one of those printers without pricing a full toner set first.
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
2 of 18 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | HP 206A Black Original LaserJet Toner Cartridge | HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $89.99 | $199.99 |
| Cost per page | About 6.7 cents for black at the stated yield | About 0.5 cents mono and 1.5 cents color, excluding paper |
| Warranty | HP cartridge replacement guarantee | 1-year limited hardware warranty |
| Cartridge type | Toner with integrated drum | not published |
| Color | Black | not published |
| Compatible printers | Color LaserJet Pro M255, M282, M283 | not published |
| Connectivity | not published | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB |
| Document feeder | not published | None -- flatbed glass only |
| Duplex | not published | Manual only |
| Duty cycle | not published | Up to 3,000 pages a month maximum |
| High-yield alternative | HP 206X, about 3,150 pages | not published |
| Page yield | About 1,350 pages at 5 per cent coverage | not published |
| Page yield per refill | not published | About 6,000 black and 8,000 color pages |
| Print resolution | not published | 1200 x 1200 dpi black, 4800 x 1200 dpi color |
| Print speed | not published | Up to 12 ppm mono, 5 ppm color, draft |
| Rated power | not published | About 12 W printing |
| Replacement ink | not published | HP 32XL black and HP 31 color bottles |
| Shelf life | About 2 years sealed | not published |
| Yield standard | ISO/IEC 19798 | not published |
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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