HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer vs Brother TN760 High Yield Black Toner Cartridge
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 — ink tank mfp against laser toner cartridge — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer vs Brother TN760 High Yield Black Toner Cartridge
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 →Brother
Brother TN760 High Yield Black Toner Cartridge
$89.99
About 3,000 pages against the TN730 at 1,200, for well under twice the money -- the high-yield cartridge is the cheaper page on almost every laser and this pair makes the point plainly.
Full details →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.
Who the Brother TN760 High Yield Black Toner Cartridge is for
Buy it if: Brother HL-L2350, L2460 and MFC-L2820 owners printing more than a few hundred pages a month.
Avoid it if: Very light users, for whom the smaller TN730 ties up less money on the shelf.
Specifications, side by side
2 of 18 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | HP Smart Tank 5101 All-in-One Ink Tank Printer | Brother TN760 High Yield Black Toner Cartridge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $199.99 | $89.99 |
| Cost per page | About 0.5 cents mono and 1.5 cents color, excluding paper | About 3 cents at the stated yield |
| Warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty | Manufacturer quality guarantee |
| Cartridge type | not published | Toner only -- drum sold separately as DR730 |
| Color | not published | Black |
| Compatible printers | not published | HL-L2350DW, HL-L2460DW, MFC-L2710DW, MFC-L2820DW |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB | not published |
| Document feeder | None -- flatbed glass only | not published |
| Duplex | Manual only | not published |
| Duty cycle | Up to 3,000 pages a month maximum | not published |
| Page yield | not published | About 3,000 pages at 5 per cent coverage |
| Page yield per refill | About 6,000 black and 8,000 color pages | not published |
| Print resolution | 1200 x 1200 dpi black, 4800 x 1200 dpi color | not published |
| Print speed | Up to 12 ppm mono, 5 ppm color, draft | not published |
| Rated power | About 12 W printing | not published |
| Replacement ink | HP 32XL black and HP 31 color bottles | not published |
| Shelf life | not published | About 2 years sealed |
| Standard alternative | not published | Brother TN730, about 1,200 pages |
| Yield standard | not published | ISO/IEC 19752 |
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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