I would much rather have the most accurate reproduction of material qualities and form. I can now produce industry level magazines and milled metal parts by having them produced on a high end machine somewhere, it does not need to be in my basement.
That's the real empowering point for me. Industrial level quality obtainable by a single user from home.
Plus it's quick, and produces great everything. Probably wouldn't satisfy a professional photographer, but for me it's a lot better than any Inkjet I've ever owned. Especially since it's used so infrequently. With Inkjets the print-heads would frequently go bad between usages. That could easily push my "few pages to print every few months" use-case into dollar-per-page territory.
The only downside is it doesn't have air-print, never will, KM has discontinued it, and at some point in the future I won't be able to buy replacement toner cartridges.
But I'm OK with that since it's already lasted longer and saved me more money than any previous printer I've owned.
If I did have to replace it, I'd definitely get another Color Laser. The Brother HL3170CDW comes in at $100 more, you can get all four colors in high-yield replacement cartridges for about $100, and it includes AirPrint.
Right now I use a $10 app that'll emulate AirPrint on the Mac. Seems to work fine, but I'm tethered to the attached Mac then.
I know right? Printer ink is more expensive than human blood. Not even kidding.
You might as well compare the price with jet fuel, too.
Hussein used to do that, but it never went mainstream [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quran]
And The Flaming Lips. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wayne-coyne-makes-pos...
(that last bit was a poop joke, not a statement about my opinions on the subject of donated blood distribution)
If someone has too much blood does it really get disposed of that way?
That's interesting, I didn't know that.