5 Comments for inkjet vs laserjet?

• 1. baby_lu x  |  August 31st, 2008 at 6:35 pm

  Inkjet printers are cheaper to buy and to replace the cartridges, they are usually only for personal use. Laserjets are usually used in offices and replacement cartridges are pretty pricey, although they do last longer.

• 2. bostonianinmo  |  August 31st, 2008 at 6:42 pm

  For color pictures, stick with inkjets. For heavy black & white text, lasers are generally less expensive in the long run. Only you can decide in the end.

• 3. Kasey C  |  August 31st, 2008 at 7:13 pm

  Color Laserjet will be quite a bit more expensive than the inkjet, but the operating costs are much lower as well. A typical laser cartridge is in the 60-100 range and yields THOUSANDS of pages, while a typical inkjet cartridge is about 30-40 and yields at most 500 pages (much less if you do color). Laser is also far more tolerant of the paper used than inkjets.

  I think in the end it comes down to the amount of volume you’ll be printing. If you will be print 100 pages a day, get a laser. If you print only maybe 10-50 pages a day, the inkjet will do.

• 4. vinothan  |  August 31st, 2008 at 7:21 pm

  There are many considerations when deciding upon an output device. The need for color, network access, initial price, and total cost of ownership all come into play when choosing a printer. Please review the following matrix when determining the printer that bests suits your needs.

  Printer Pros Cons
  Inkjet : Lower initial cost
  Color output Serves only one user
  Difficult to network
  Higher cost per page

  LaserJet: Serves multiple users
  Higher output quality
  Easily networked
  Low cost per page
  Faster output
  *Covered w/repair budget Higher initial cost

  *The NIC Help Desk has repair budgets for current networked printers. This covers all normal repair costs.

• 5. Nazrat  |  May 21st, 2011 at 4:18 am

  I’d get a laserjet. I’ve just bought an HP laserjet on sale (79.99), with a toner good for 700 pages. Brandname Toner cartridges are $80 for 2000 copies. My inkjet printer was $39.90 but the cartridge costs quickly add up. These are $24-35.00 for Black and similar or more for colour. Moreover, these cartridges have problems. (1) They dry up so you have to buy another unless you use them quickly. (2) Because the nozzles clog with dried ink, the cartridges spray out ink at each start-up to clean the head, resulting in a mass of ink below the cartridge, as I’ve found, Also see “Inkjet’s dirty little secrete” you-tube video. This is why these cartridges supposedly have enough ink for 700 pages but definitely not in practcie. Even so, they still clog. (3) I’ve read estimates of $8000.00 per gallon of inkjet ink, pretty annoying when so much ends up on the bottom of the printer. (4) The electronic contacts between the cartridge and printer fail. leading to an incorrrect message that “your cartridge is incompatible” and failure to print, with a genuine HP cartridge. This happened to me for the 3rd time and is why I bought an HP laserjet today. Laserjets: better print quality, no nozzle to clog, no wasted ink, no bad contacts. After using three Inkjet cartridges, you’re at the same cost as a laserjet. Colour laserjets are expensive, but I don’t use the colour Inkjet function much. Easier to print your photos at a kiosk. You need photopaper to print a decent photo from your printer, and the kiosks can be easier to work than your own computer’s photo software.

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