[nabs-l] Printers

[Steve Jacobson]

Joe,

I was not certain if you were trying to convince me, so I wanted to make clear that we agree.  Thank you for supplying the 
details.  Also color lasers have come down greatly in price over the past few years even though they are still more expensive than 
color ink-jets.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:39:04 -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:

>Steve,
>I'll address both points.

>First, price. If you consider the number of pages you get from a toner 
>cartridge for a laser printer vs that of an ink cartridge for an ink jet 
>printer, here's what you find. the toner might cost a bit more, but the 
>number of pages per sheet is much lower. for ink jet, it is typically 10 
>to 20 cents per page, where as for laser you can get it to where it's 
>less than a penny per page if you have a high yield toner cartridge and 
>you can get it at a good price. Even if you end up with 2 to 5 cents per 
>page, however, which is also not uncommon, you still end up getting a 
>better price for toner than for ink.

>As for the quality, where ink jet is sometimes better is when you are 
>printing color photos. I think a lot of that opinion comes from the fact 
>that a color laser costs quite a bit more than a color ink jet. If you 
>use a laser comparable in price to a color ink jet, it's almost 
>certainly a black and white printer. Laser printers also have the 
>problem that you can't put normal transparencies and such through them 
>because of the heat; you need special laser printing ones. I'm not sure 
>how high end color laser printers and high end ink jets compare when 
>printing photos. Standard printings, like research papers and such are 
>almost always better looking with laser.
>Joe

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