The Epson EPL 6200L is almost twice the price of Brother’s HL-2035. But the EPL 6200L is faster, comes with a regular toner cartridge (not a starter capacity) and its cost per page is lower. Moreover, the quality of prints is on the whole higher. Basically, it does everything rather better.

Speed and quality

The Epson EPL 6200L is very fast and holds it quoted print speed of 20 ppm. This applies to draft mode, be it text or graphics. Text, as always with laser, prints sharp and clean. Business graphics and charts come out well too, with little apparent banding. They are legible and crisp. The gradients come out well. At least that is the case when printing in standard mode. When switching to « draft » the results are less clean. The draft mode will clearly save on toner and should be used just to check that everything is in place before the printing out the final version.





Cost per page

We were pleased to see that the the EPL 6200L comes with a full toner with a 3,000-page capacity. (Brother only offers a starter version with 1,000 pages instead of 1,500 and Canon only 700). This accounts for the price difference, making the two other cheaper. However if you add the price of a 2,000 pages page toner on top of the Canon and Brother to reach the capacity offered straight away but the EPL 6200L, their price goes up immediately. What’s more, the EPL 6200L prints better, faster and for less!

cartridge	lifespan (pages)
EPSON - C13S050167	3,000

Cost per page is one of the lowest among entry-level laser printers. Canon is 50% more.The price of the consumables is important with this printer. Contrary to Canon, it has two components; a photoconductor drum and a toner cartridge. The photoconductor drum is rated at 20,000 pages, which means that you must add the price of this to the cost per page if you have to change it one day. Having said that, a service life of 20,000 pages is pretty good and you wouldn’t really expect to have to change the drum too soon!