Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet >Key innovations >Spring 1984 – First HP LaserJet >Autumn 1991 – First HP Color LaserJet >In September 1994 HP introduced the Color LaserJet, the corporation's first color laser printer. The printer had an average cost per page of less than 10 cents. The Color LaserJet offered 2 ppm color printing and 10 ppm for black text, 8MB of memory, 45 built-in fonts, a 1,250-sheet paper tray and enhanced PCL 5 with color. It was priced at $7,295. When I bought my Konica-Minolta MagiColor 2400W, it cost me $489 at Office Depot. I also bought a Konica-Minolta 1350 monochrome laser printer for $149 the next day. That was about twenty years ago. I still have both printers although I don't use either of them anymore.