inkjet cartridges cost anywhere from $20.00 to $90 per set. I just bought a replacement color for kodak printer EPS 7 (for someone I know). It cost around $20.00. I also just bought a black ink for Epson Artesian 830 printer at around $20.00 and a color set for another Epson printer at $70.00. Laser printers are so cheap now that replacing the inkjet cartridge two or three times is more than enough to pay for a good quality laser printer.

And you would not have to be replacing a cartridge every time to print few pages. It's worth to buy a laser printer if you are only printing few pages a month and where inkjet would be constantly be clogged for lack of use. I should know because one of my inkjet printer is a wide format printer capable of handling big sheet of paper. I print a small page at least once a week to keep it from clogging up. nozzle cleaning eats up more ink than a few pages of printing. The large format is something I need from time to time but not every day.