I think that's more-or-less in line with the cost of HP ink cartridges.

The real moral of this story is that people should stop buying HP printers, or at least HP inkjet printers.

(For a laugh, see also The Verge's 2023 Printer Buying Guide: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...)

It's actually pretty competitive. The 100 pages plan is £4.49/month in UK. If you use them all that's 4.5p a page. They can all be full colour photos if you like.

My multifunction printer cost £50 and a ream of paper (500 sheets) is about £6.

Commercial printers charge 10-30p a sheet. I even have an acquaintance with a pay per click service contract on his huge Konica Minolta photocopier who seems to pay the same per click as I do.

Are you are that is expensive?

Where I am printing a black and white document is around $0.20.

A color print is $0.60.

So 100 black and white pages would be $20 and color would be $60.

Sure you have to add paper to that calculation but considering that is a 500 count for $10-15 thats still makes it cheaper wether you are doing black and white or color.

Now yes you do have to take into account the cost of the machine.