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Article #94: Inkjet Vs Laser Printer

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In the early days there was a vast Inkjet printers are not recommended when
difference between an inkjet printer and printing needs to be done in large
its laser version but with time the volumes.
difference has narrowed down to point They are known to throw up cartridge
where it is sometimes difficult to error messages even though the cartridges
differentiate between the two. Most might be working just fine. This is not
individuals continue to use the inkjet to say that Inkjet printers are always
printers, as they are less expensive and problematic but these are just a few
nearly all of them are colour capable. errors that do crop up once in a while.
The quality of the inkjet printers has The print can also start going haywire
improved over time and now there is not a sometimes and it may start printing in
huge difference in printing quality with endless loops.
the Laser printers. It's for this reason It is often difficult to minimize and
that small or home business can use an regulate the amount of ink being used in
inkjet printer without having to worry the Inkjet printers.
about documents looking unclear or There is a difference in quality of an
looking cheap. Inkjet print and a laser print. Often the
The laser printer is capable of printing laser print is of better quality.
much faster and usually produces better It is for these reasons that the laser
quality image, it is far more expensive printers sales have taken off in a very
as compared to the Inkjet version. Laser big way in spite of being a more
printers are usually used for black expensive buy.
printing but there are colour laser However, in comparison to the laser
printers available now. printers, there are a few positives about
Having pointed that out, it is also the inkjet printers, which are more
useful to note that the general rule of suitable to the requirements of a small
the thumb for printers is "the lesser the or home business where they do not need
cost of the printer, the more expensive to print as many in terms of volumes.
the running cost". This could however Colour laser printers have been around
depend on the volume of printing the for some time but they were frightfully
printer is being used for. If the expensive a few years ago. A recent study
printing volume were minimal, it would be found that last year nearly 1.85 million
more cost effective to use an inkjet colour laser printers were sold, a
printer. It is very easy to get carried substantial growth from the previous
away by the initial price of an inkjet year. A large number of offices are going
printer but people buying them are often in for the colour page printers. This is
not aware that the running cost of the however not recommended if you do not
machine would play a huge part and should need to print fliers or brochures in
be factored into the decision making. large volumes consistently.
This would be better understood with an There are a few other advantages that
example. Let us consider a Canon i320 come with a laser printer, for example:
colour bubble jet printer. It usually Using a duplex unit: This would enable
does not cost more than ?30 obviously the user to print back to back. This is
subject to the discounts applicable at particularly useful for creating
your store. The cost of a cartridge is brochures and leaflets.
usually in the ?10 range and on an Add a paper drawer: This would reduce the
average it prints 170 pages. Even if you number of user interventions and in turn
print as few as 7 pages a day that works reduces the printer errors.
out to 2100 pages over the year. This in Assigning different paper trays for
turn works out to an annual expense of different drafts can be used to print
approximately ?135. The amount one spends different documents without messing about
on cartridges is approximately 4 times with the tray each time.
the price of the printer in the first An ethernet or a wireless network card
year itself. This is the reason the can be added to the printer to attach it
subsequent expenditure needs to be taken to a network. This functionality can be
into consideration while buying a availed in the laser printer.
printer. This is just to outline the benefits of
Inkjet printers come with some added using each kind of a printer. This is
problems that need to be looked at and aimed at helping the user to weigh the
taken into consideration: pros and the cons before buying a
To begin with they are not as fast as the printer.
Laser printers. This is one reason why






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