HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4101fdw Mono Laser Printer vs Epson EcoTank ET-4850 All-in-One Supertank Printer
What separates them
These two differ on 9 recorded specifications. The HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4101fdw Mono Laser Printer is $49.01 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.
HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4101fdw Mono Laser Printer vs Epson EcoTank ET-4850 All-in-One Supertank Printer
HP
HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4101fdw Mono Laser Printer
$449.00
The step that matters is the cartridge, not the speed: HP 148X holds about 9,500 pages, so at roughly $199 a cartridge this prints for about 2.1 cents a page.
Full details →Epson
Epson EcoTank ET-4850 All-in-One Supertank Printer
$399.99
The same ink economics as the ET-2850 with the two things that machine lacks: a 30-sheet document feeder and Ethernet, which is what makes it usable as a shared office printer.
Full details →Who the HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4101fdw Mono Laser Printer is for
Buy it if: Workgroups printing a few thousand pages a month where cost per page dominates.
Avoid it if: Anyone planning to use compatible cartridges, which this firmware refuses.
Who the Epson EcoTank ET-4850 All-in-One Supertank Printer is for
Buy it if: Small offices wanting supertank running costs with a feeder and a wired network port.
Avoid it if: Single-user desks, where the ET-2850 does the same printing for less.
Specifications, side by side
9 of 15 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4101fdw Mono Laser Printer | Epson EcoTank ET-4850 All-in-One Supertank Printer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $449.00 | $399.99 |
| Connectivity | Gigabit Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi, USB | Ethernet, Wi-Fi and USB |
| Cost per page | About 2.1 cents on 148X, excluding paper | About 0.8 cents mono and 2.2 cents color, excluding paper |
| Document feeder | 50-sheet reversing ADF | 30-sheet ADF |
| Duplex | Automatic two-sided printing and scanning | Automatic two-sided printing |
| Duty cycle | Up to 80,000 pages a month maximum | Up to 3,000 pages a month maximum |
| Print resolution | 1200 x 1200 dpi effective | 4800 x 1200 dpi |
| Print speed | Up to 42 ppm, Letter mono | Up to 10 ppm mono at ISO, 33 ppm draft |
| Rated power | About 600 W printing, 1.1 W in sleep | About 13 W printing |
| Warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty | 2-year limited warranty with registration |
| Cartridge policy | Dynamic Security -- third-party cartridges are blocked | not published |
| Input tray | 250 sheets, expandable to 900 | not published |
| Page yield per refill | not published | About 4,500 black and 7,500 color pages |
| Recommended volume | 750 to 4,000 pages a month | not published |
| Replacement cartridge | HP 148A, about 2,900 pages, or 148X, about 9,500 pages | not published |
| Replacement ink | not published | Epson 502 bottles, black and three colors |
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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