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Laserjet vs inkjet?
I know this must have been asked a million times, but can someone
advise me of: laserjet vs inkjet? Our usage is relatively small, but is it still worth us going for laserjet for less than =A3100? Some of the Samsung models sell for less than =A350! (With the damn ink cartidges then costing a further =A345+ each time.) : ( Are laserjets more cheaper to print on in the long run? And how much can I save by getting a laserjet refill instead of the real thing? Is the quality the same in this case? Are compatibles as widely available as the inkjets? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks. OM |
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"OM" wrote in message ups.com... I know this must have been asked a million times, but can someone advise me of: laserjet vs inkjet? Our usage is relatively small, but is it still worth us going for laserjet for less than £100? Some of the Samsung models sell for less than £50! (With the damn ink cartidges then costing a further £45+ each time.) : ( Are laserjets more cheaper to print on in the long run? And how much can I save by getting a laserjet refill instead of the real thing? Is the quality the same in this case? Are compatibles as widely available as the inkjets? For arguements sake let us assume that for 5% paper coverage the average injet cartridge will print 500 pages and the average laser printer 3000 pages. This gives a ratio of 1 to 6. Genuine toner refills as you say cost around £45 which on a page by page basis would mean than an equivalent inkjet cartridge should cost £7.50. A refill for a Samsung ML1210 is about £8. Draw your own conclusions. MJP |
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Laser printers tend to be cheaper to run and more reliable. They
usually can have more generic toner used, as long as it is the right type, to save money of consumables without risk of damage. Inkjets can be more difficult. Laser printers can sit unused for weeks or months without the toner being altered or problems with clogging. Laser printers can produce archival and waterproof text with regular and cheap bond paper. Their only major problem is the toner can transfer if the pages are stored in certain plastic sheets or in contact with vinyl. If you only need black and white printout, the laser printer will be quicker, less costly, etc. The print quality for images may not be quite as good as an inkjet. Art OM wrote: I know this must have been asked a million times, but can someone advise me of: laserjet vs inkjet? Our usage is relatively small, but is it still worth us going for laserjet for less than £100? Some of the Samsung models sell for less than £50! (With the damn ink cartidges then costing a further £45+ each time.) : ( Are laserjets more cheaper to print on in the long run? And how much can I save by getting a laserjet refill instead of the real thing? Is the quality the same in this case? Are compatibles as widely available as the inkjets? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks. OM |
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thanks for both the above replies.
a follow on question: how about colour laserjets? how do they compare cost wise? i assume that you don't have seperate toners for each colour?? i've seen them as cheap as just over =A3200. some of them have printing qualities of upto 2400dpi. thanks. om |
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"OM" wrote in message oups.com... thanks for both the above replies. a follow on question: how about colour laserjets? how do they compare cost wise? i assume that you don't have seperate toners for each colour?? i've seen them as cheap as just over £200. some of them have printing qualities of upto 2400dpi. thanks. om As they say,never assume anything.All the colour laser printers that I have used have separate toners for each colour. Typical prices for a single colour toner for an A4 printer are £80 and for A3 £135. MJP |
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yikes!
y soo much? surely this makes them less economical than inkjets? how much do refills cost? |
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"OM" wrote in message oups.com... yikes! y soo much? surely this makes them less economical than inkjets? how much do refills cost? FWIW, for mono printing use a laser for speed and economy, for colour use an inkjet. Colour toner refills, i.e. bottled toner approx. £30-40 per colour. MJP |
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"Arthur Entlich" wrote in message news:ELkTd.4331$TB.992@edtnps84... If you only need black and white printout, the laser printer will be quicker, less costly, etc. A laser may or may not be quicker. For infrequent printing of a few pages an inkjet could generally be faster since there's no need to wait for a warmup. And some of the cheapest lasers aren't particularly fast either. |
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Most inkjet printers, while not requiring a warm up, often have a start
up sequence to clean the heads which not only uses up ink, but also takes some time. Most monochrome laser printers will be faster with output than the same document printed on an inkjet printer. And for multiple copies of the same document this will almost definitely be so. Art John Doe wrote: "Arthur Entlich" wrote in message news:ELkTd.4331$TB.992@edtnps84... If you only need black and white printout, the laser printer will be quicker, less costly, etc. A laser may or may not be quicker. For infrequent printing of a few pages an inkjet could generally be faster since there's no need to wait for a warmup. And some of the cheapest lasers aren't particularly fast either. |
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When talking laser, color or otherwise, keep in mind that their yield
is measured in thousands of pages, rather than hundreds of pages. For example looking at a modest price color laser picked at random (except the Konica I know better) HP 2550L Color LaserJet Printer. The black claims a yield of 5000 pages, each of the three colors claim a yield of 4000. The cost of the cartridges will run you $100 each easily at a local shop. The yield estimate is usually something like 10% of the page or something small. Let's say you used all the colors to print on each page. That would be about 10 cents a page and you might have a few pages of black left over. The cost per page would go down if you refilled the toner your self or buy refurbished cartridges. This doesn't include the cost of the drum or other consumables such as paper, just raw toner. A referbished cart might cost you as little as $300/set lowering your cost to 7.5cents/page for just the toner. Even lower if you find a solution that takes raw toner. Let's look at the Canon ip3000, a very modest printer and cheap to operate, what I wish I bought. Last time I checked the official ink was equivalent to $3500/gal. Official ink runs about $14 each with an estimated yield of of 500pages on the black, 280p on the color. About $56 for the set +/- a bit. Again let's assume they are talking yields with 10% page used with ink. This is 20cents a page assuming you used all your colors and had a bit of black left over. To print the same mount as the color laser on the inkjet it would require $800 rather than $400 and this is among one of the lower cost/page units on the market. Again costs would go down if you went with refills and such. This is just the ink alone and not the photopaper required to get good results. That'll run you another 10/20 cents/sheet easily... so add another 50% or 100% We're hitting close to a grand on consumables on only 4000 pages. HP is even higher depending on model, Lexmark is often higher stilll. $5000 or even $10000/gal isn't unheard of on inkjets. Most people don't print that much to notice. Burning a $100 of ink a year isn't a big deal... and well it isn't really. But if you using much more than that it's time to consider at least a B&W laser or color one if you need it. . |
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