Are laser printers better and more cost effective than inkjet printers?

A laser printer or even the new solid ink machine from Xerox is cheaper over the long run than an inkjet. For example...





A Canon i320 Color Bubble Jet Printer. The cost for the hardware can be as little as $55, depending on discounts and where you buy it. The average cost of the ink from Canon is $19 but the yield from that is a measly 170 pages. Even if you print very little, the cost quickly adds up:





Seven pages a day times 300 days equals 2100 pages 鈥?an ink bill of $235.60 per year. If you own the printer for three years, the cost of cartridges comes to over $700 or about 13 times the original cost of the printer. For the Epson Stylus C62 the ink bill would be over $1000 for three year's worth of printing.





Of course, seven pages a day is a conservative estimate 鈥?some small business or home offices print a lot more. Let's say your company prints 50 pages a day, 300 days a year. Using the above example, that equates to printing 15,000 pages annually. At that same rate, your annual ink cartridge bill would total $1,596.





An HP laser printer with an estimated machine cost of $400, combined with a $115 toner cartridge, yields 8000 pages. Printing 40,000 pages costs you $400 plus $460 for the ink for a total of $860. A Brother 1440 laser printer works out at about $930 for the same number of pages. That comes to around two cents a page, or eight times less than an inkjet printer.





SpencerLab, a digital-color laboratory in Melville, New York, tested the HP LaserJet 1320 and the Dell 1700 Laser Printers. According to Catherine Fiasconaro, director of SpencerLab, even when you calculate the cost of the toner and the drum (which has to be replaced about every 20,000 pages), HP high-yield monochrome cartridges cost about two cents per print, with Dell costing slightly more.





http://www.spencerlab.com/publications/Are laser printers better and more cost effective than inkjet printers?
Depends what you need the printer for?





For Black only printing, yes lasers are usually cheaper, faster, and more reliable than an inkjet printer. The exception would be the cheap laser printers (under $110).





For Color prints, it all depends on the cartridges. If you look at this http://oinkinkstore.wordpress.com/2008/0鈥?/a>


you will see that, cheap color lasers can cost a lot more than a very good inkjet printer. Plus on most color lasers, you can not print on photo paper.





As a general rule of thumb, the cheaper the printer is to buy, more expensive it is to own.Are laser printers better and more cost effective than inkjet printers?
I saw this questions and new the answer with ease...But to put it simple every one answering this did great....Laser will cost you less if you do a lot of printing. Inket is great for the seldom user. College students should get one that would work for their needs. Example. My dad is finishing up his dvance degree, he prints everything out he does twice and black only. I did the cost if he would of done that on an inkjet and it was over 6.5 times more expensive. Yikes....Hope all the answers here help you. For a brand if you want to know one. I prefer Samsung Products. Although, Xerox, and HP have great products for this as well.
Unless you like spending good money buying expensive inkjet cartridges, if I were in your shoes I would simply look for an older Hewlett Packard (HP) Laserjet Printer like one from the HP Laserjet 4 or 5 series, HP 2100 or 2200 series etc. As you know the print quality for any papers or documents you have to submit is TERRIFIC and all the drivers are still readily availble on-line for download.





Like someone else suggest I actually saw some GOOD WORKHORSE HP LASERJET 4 printers on sale for $12.00 on CRAIGLIST which caught me by surprise me...since I personally own like 4 Hewlett Packard black %26amp; white HP Laserjets that I paid from a free-gift away, $35, $65 and like $1,500 %26lt;= years ago brand new.





Naturally I don't need any more but where I saw it was on my local CRAIGSLIST under the FOR SALE category then COMPUTERS. What happened was Seller bought a huge lot of commercial HP Laserjet printers on few pallets and simply did not have storage.





Just be PATIENT if you didn't see any under a wildcard search or maybe POST YOUR OWN CL Inquiry in 2 places under WANTED and COMPUTERS but most likely all you will attract is people dumping inkjet printers.





EBAY COMPUTERs might be another Good Buy to find a good laserjet printer, but do yourself a favor and SEARCH BY CLOSEST DISTANCE bec S%26amp;H will certainly be costly. Also genuine unopened HP toner lasts forever and never dries up, and with patience can be bought for like $25 or more and one toner cartridge can easily last a full year.





Hope the Above Info Helps!
in the end yes laser printers ae much more cost effective though enicialy the cost more but with a laser you get a better quallity immage on chap papper and though toner may cost 100 you wont need to replace it for a few years why do yo think all school and bussiness have lasers and when they go coulor they also use colour lasers
The jury is still out based on toner/ink usage, and then their respective electricity usage. I have seen studies and comparisons on both sides.





I am of the camp that believes laser printers are more cost effective, especially for just black and white printing.





Kind regards,


-Ed