> Business printers exist, and for those you pay a steeper initial price, but then the cost per page goes dramatically down.

Here's a secret of printer procurement, at least for laser printers: Usually, the more expensive the business printer is, the less it costs to print per page (including toner). With even a moderate amount of use, you save money by purchasing a better printer up front. That is, you can spend your money on a better printer, or spend even more money on toner. It's that obvious a choice.

Just do the math: Estimate pages per month (your old printer may have a log). For various printes, look up the price of a toner cartridge and the number of pages of print it supplies. With a spreadsheet you can calculate the lowest lifetime cost, and I bet it's for a better printer than you expected.