Is a laser printer better than a inkjet printer for home use?
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I read online a laser printer costs 2 cents a page and a inkjet costs 10 cents a page. Does anyone have a laser printer that they use at HOME?
Thanks!
Several years ago the answer to this question was always that a personal laser printer will cost less thatn an inkjet printer becuase of the cost of the replacement ink cartridges.
Now, inkjet printers are much more efficient – but – it still seems that the low cost inkjet printers are not effecient enough to compete with modern laser printers.
If one looks at the cost of ownership of several years, and if the printer is used on a regular basis, the cost of replacement inkjet cartridges can come out to as much as $700. This is a lot of money.
Let’s say you have a $60 inkjet model with black ink costing $19, and it printes 170 pages per cartridge. And lets say you print just seven pages per day for 300 days per year (not really a lot).
7 pages a day multiplied by 300 days equals 2,100 pages and gives an ink cost of $235 per year. If you own that inkjet for 3 years, the cost of cartridges comes to more than $700 or about 13 times the original cost of the printer.
Now, using a persoanl laser printer, the initial cost of the printer may be 3 or 4 times higher but the cost of ink is vastly reduced resulting in a significant lifetime cost of ownership.
Not only that, laser printers are much faster than inkjet printers.
