How long is a printer suppose to last? -

I see printers with a 10K/month duty cycle, but how long can they do that sort of work? A year? Two years? How do they figure a duty cycle?

The answer is that you will replace the printer before it should fail. This is because most printers last 6-7 years of average use, but the ink becomes either unavailable or too expensive by that time.

In this world, computer and accessories become obsolete almost at the time of purchase itself. Physically it can last reasonably long, if good care is taken. I have myself used an Ink Jet Printer for about 3 years.

It really depends upon the Brand name. Running a printer at maximum capacity all the time is without question going to shorten it s life span. I find with my HP s at work they require serious servicing at around the 100K mark. ALthough that may be a skewed perspective, working at a comany that does a high volume of commerical print, we tend to take excellent care of the printers.

well printers that are made for heavy duty jobs can last real long despite the 10,000 pages per month you mention... i personally have seen printers that have been in use for virtually eons and are still working under heavy load. the printers used in my university for student related jobs actually print pages almost every few seconds and have been there for many years now.. they are still working fine and serving almost 1500 students of the university!

I worked in the past at a Toner Cartridges manufacturing plant and punished printers beyond their duty cycle, at the peak I was printing a whole skid of paper (40 reams) every three days the only thing is to give them good service. I did that for 5 years