Monthly duty cycle is 50 to 100 pages per month

[SidewaysSyd]

I'm comparing at the HP ENVY 6010/20/30 range of printers and have noticed the Monthly Duty Cycle, a field I've never spotted before. 

I've looked it up and MDC is defined as the maximum number of pages per month of imaged output.

For these printers the specification says the MDC is:

50 - 100 pages per month / Recommended: 50 - 100 pages per month / Recommended: 100-400 pages per month

respectively.

Am I being stupid? Is this telling me that printing more than 2 or 3 pages per day is going to seriously limit the life of my printer?

What does "imaged output" mean? Why add the word recommended to two of the printers?

I'm only going to be printing documents, not photo images on photo paper. 

[Valsimot · Accepted solution]

Don't mix recommended MDC and MDC those 2 are different.

The MDC is the information you need and for Envy 6010 is up to 1000 pages

https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c06675199 

If you print more than 1000 pages monthly then you need to look for a device with a higher MDC.

[SidewaysSyd]

Thanks for that. I should have said that the compare search I carried out was on the PC World website. Their monthly duty cycle is completely misleading and wrong.

1000 pages per month is much more reasonable....still surprising, but reasonable.