[mrighele]

Identical story here. The toner the printer came with lasted a few months. I refilled it in a local shop (the guy explained me that they had to replace the chip that counts the pages so refilling was expensive, but in fact it was a fraction of a new one). Still printing with that same toner after (I think) 6 years.

[bombcar]

Most printers now explicitly call out that they come with a "starter toner" - which has many fewer pages than a normal one.