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what is better between laserjet and inkjet printers?

and what would you choose?

Public Comments

1. Laser Printers are faster and cheaper, but they're also bad at printing photos/images/graphics. Inkjet Printers are a bit more costly but print higher quality images. Personally, if you print a lot of documents go for a laser, if you print a lot of images go for an inkjet.
2. I had a laserjet printer once, and found out that they're better if you have a high volume demand for it's use, whereas an inkjet is better for us small-volume users. In a laserjet printer, we had to replace the printer drum, if I remember correctly, simply because it warped from lack of use. We replaced it, installing it ourselves, and then sold it to my former secretary who was doing some in-home typing for local doctors and had a higher volume demand than I did. God Bless you.
3. I have several black and white HP Laserjet printers (HP 4M, 5 and 5N), one HP Officejet RX40 <= this inkjet combo I now use mainly for simple copying at home and one terrific HP Color Laserjet 4550 <= extremely heavy like 90 lbs. HP laserjet printers are GOOD low cost options for professional quality printing in Black & white and the Best Buy <= my subjective opinion (and FYI wow over 10 years and never replaced drum like another Answerer. Unless you like spending good money buying expensive inkjet cartridges, if I were in your shoes I would simply look for an older Hewlett Packard (HP) Laserjet Printer like one from the HP Laserjet 4 or 5 series, HP 2100 or 2200 series etc. As you know the print quality for any papers or documents you have to submit is TERRIFIC and all the drivers are still readily available on-line for download. I actually saw some GOOD WORKHORSE HP LASERJET 4 printers on sale for $12.00 on CRAIGLIST which caught me by surprise me...since I personally own like 3 Hewlett Packard black & white HP Laserjets that I paid from a free-gift away, $35, $65 and like $1,500 <= years ago brand new. Naturally I don't need any more but where I saw it was on my local CRAIGSLIST under the FOR SALE category then COMPUTERS. What happened was Seller bought a huge lot of commercial HP Laserjet printers on few pallets and simply did not have storage. Just be PATIENT if you didn't see any under a wildcard search or maybe POST YOUR OWN CL Inquiry in 2 places under WANTED and COMPUTERS but most likely all you will attract is people dumping inkjet printers. EBAY COMPUTERs might be another Good Buy to find a good laserjet printer, but do yourself a favor and SEARCH BY CLOSEST DISTANCE bec S&H will certainly be costly. Also genuine unopened HP toner lasts forever and never dries up, and with patience can be bought for like $25 or more and one toner cartridge can easily last a full year. Hope the Above Info Helps!
4. A laser printer or even the new solid ink machine from Xerox is cheaper over the long run than an inkjet. For example... A Canon i320 Color Bubble Jet Printer. The cost for the hardware can be as little as $55, depending on discounts and where you buy it. The average cost of the ink from Canon is $19 but the yield from that is a measly 170 pages. Even if you print very little, the cost quickly adds up: Seven pages a day times 300 days equals 2100 pages — an ink bill of $235.60 per year. If you own the printer for three years, the cost of cartridges comes to over $700 or about 13 times the original cost of the printer. For the Epson Stylus C62 the ink bill would be over $1000 for three year's worth of printing. Of course, seven pages a day is a conservative estimate — some small business or home offices print a lot more. Let's say your company prints 50 pages a day, 300 days a year. Using the above example, that equates to printing 15,000 pages annually. At that same rate, your annual ink cartridge bill would total $1,596. An HP laser printer with an estimated machine cost of $400, combined with a $115 toner cartridge, yields 8000 pages. Printing 40,000 pages costs you $400 plus $460 for the ink for a total of $860. A Brother 1440 laser printer works out at about $930 for the same number of pages. That comes to around two cents a page, or eight times less than an inkjet printer. SpencerLab, a digital-color laboratory in Melville, New York, tested the HP LaserJet 1320 and the Dell 1700 Laser Printers. According to Catherine Fiasconaro, director of SpencerLab, even when you calculate the cost of the toner and the drum (which has to be replaced about every 20,000 pages), HP high-yield monochrome cartridges cost about two cents per print, with Dell costing slightly more. http://www.spencerlab.com/publications/ http://www.tangerineofficesystems.com/ I would choose a laser printer, which is what I have in my house and office.