suprasteve said:it all depends. What will it be used for, how much are you going to print, do you want color or b&w, what's your budget? I think that's a good start to the questions you should answer when considering
With color images, that's ususally true, but lasers will produce extremely crisp text.The quality in laser printers tends not to be as good. But the speed is usually much faster. The selling point in your case would be the ink. Laser printers print differently than regular printers.
Be aware that many manufacturers include 'starter cartridges' with their printers, both inkjet & laser. Basically, they're cartridges that are only half-full. If that's the case with your printer, it's worth getting the new cartridge.Laser printers last a lottttt longer in general. I had a laser printer and it lasted me 4 years without having to change the ink. When I did need to however, I bought a new printer instead. Why? THE OUTRAGEOUS COST. I could have bought three brand new printers for the cost of the ink replacement. I think it was about $300 or so.
And how much printing you intend to do.So it comes down to how rich you are I suppose. If you have the money for a laser, I'd probably go with that.
what some people do is buy the cheapest printers they can find cause they come with like $60 worth of ink and they just throw them away or sell them cheap when they're done with them, I'm not one of those but yeah. And it sounds like this is going to be for home use, in which case I would say go inkjet cause laser would be quite expensiveceewi1 said:Be aware that many manufacturers include 'starter cartridges' with their printers, both inkjet & laser. Basically, they're cartridges that are only half-full. If that's the case with your printer, it's worth getting the new cartridge.
davidireland said:The quality in laser printers tends not to be as good. But the speed is usually much faster.