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.

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Personal Laser Printer Guide

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Purchasing (the correct) personal laser printer for your home PC is one of the best investments you can make.

The is a huge choice of manufacturers, such as Dell and HP and Xerox, that make printers for all bugets and have wide ranges of facilities.  But, each one of them will save you money on ink as persal laser printers use a lot less ink than their inkjet printer counterparts.

Here is a short loist of items to look for when making your buying decision.

Does it need to have high spped capability?

For home use, and unless you are printing hundreds of pages at a time, a printer that takes an extra few seconds to print a page is generally just fine.  The more you pay, the faster the printer will print – but why pay extra for performance you will never need?

How much desk space will it take up?

The footprints of personal laster printers are coming down all the time.  The new designs are much smaller but they do sacrice some paper holding capacity.  But, again, for home use, I do not see any issues.

Can you print all the things you need to?

The is the biggest and most decisive question to ask.  If you are printing text then a personal laser printer is for you.  If you want to proint graphics, especially color, then you should be looking at a photo inkjet printer and will have to bit the bullet when it comes to ink costs.

There are color laser printers that will do a decent job for everything that does not need the photo type resolution.

What are the running costs of my printer?

This will depend on how much you use it.  It generally will print more than an inkjet but for both laser and inkjet printers, replacment ink cartridges can become expensive.  Take a look at the manufacturers specifications and work out hom many pages per cartridge they can print, then divide by cartridge price by the number of pages to get you cost per page.

Connecting your printer to the PC.

I always recommend using a wireless connection – especially for those that have laptops or not much space for the printer.

 

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