Ron Cohen wrote:
A laser is typically faster than an inkjet for text printing and there won't
be any problems from smudging due to moisture. As to cost, laser printers
are economical if you aren't printing large solids or entire pages of single
spaced text.

Even if you are, they are still far less costly to run than inkjets.

Page yield is usually based on 5% coverage which isn't a lot.

But it really isn't too far from what you get with a normal page of
text.

As to inkjets, there are fast inkjets on the market such as the Canon i860.
It will have the added advantage of color output if that would be needed. I
refill my Canon inkjets and the cost is much lower per page than for my
laser.

It's one of those cheap-to-buy but expensive-to-run ones, isn't it?

You can get a 16oz bottle of black refill ink for around $20 or so.
That much ink will print far more documents than a standard laser toner
cartridge.

A customer gets between 7,000 and 10,000 pages from HP C4127X toner
cartridges at $105 each. That comes to 1.5 cents per page at most. Do
you really get more than 1300 pages out of the $20 ink bottle?

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Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA