Eleven toners to one drum
On small lasers the drum is shut inside the cartridge: every toner change renews a part that could have lasted far longer, and you pay for it every time. It is convenient, and it is expensive.
The M436dn separates the two. You buy powder when you run out of powder, and the cylinder — the expensive part — is replaced once in eleven times. That is most of the reason why a machine of this type, dearer to buy, works out clearly cheaper per page than a compact laser.
The drum is not eternal for all that. It scratches and marks, and its signature is recognisable: a fault that always comes back at the same place on the page. A toner at the end of its life, by contrast, gives uniformly pale pages.
A3, and what the format changes
The M436dn prints, copies and scans up to A3, at 23 pages per minute, with automatic duplex. Since toner yields are measured on A4 pages, output entirely in A3 uses twice as much: a 56A there produces about 3,700 pages rather than 7,400. The subject is developed on the LaserJet Enterprise 700 M712dn page, the catalogue's other monochrome A3 machine.
56A or 56X
13,700 pages against 7,400, so 1.85 times more. On a machine whose cycle reaches 50,000 pages a month, the 56X is the natural format: it halves the number of interventions on a printer that weighs 25 kg and is rarely within arm's reach.
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