Everyone thinks toner is liquid ink. It’s not. Toner is a fine plastic powder. Yes, plastic. When you print, a laser zaps it onto the paper, then heat melts it into permanence.
That little cartridge is a tiny plastic factory. A standard toner cartridge can print around 2,000 pages. But here’s the twist: price per page drops with high-yield cartridges. A $60 toner that prints 2,000 pages costs 3 cents per page. A $100 high-yield that prints 5,000 pages? That’s just 2 cents. Math wins again.
