On Apr 13, 2004, at 8:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We do a LOT of printing. For draft stuff, we prefer cheap inkjets and such. For production we like expensive crayon poopers (wax) and lasers.
Of those three types of printers, inkjets have the highest cost per page...even without amortizing the cost of the printer over it's life. Inkjet printers are cheap handles with hella expensive, easily dulled razor blades.
The wax printers and lasers are quite a bit more expensive initially, but they're a lot longer lived and supplies are *cheaper* on a per-page basis.
You would likely save money, overall, by not replacing the inkjets when they wear out (or heck, with the price of some printers when the ink runs out), and adding more workgroup color lasers for draft work.
For home use, this breaks because a typical home user isn't going to recoup the initial cost of purchasing the printer for *years*, and inkjet printers are better for photo printing, at least high-quality ones versus lasers or thermal wax. Only Dye-sub printers give better quality than inkjets (and are, not coincidentally, the only printing technology *higher* in cost per page than inkjets.)
But in a business setting it really does make sense to look beyond inkjets other than things like large format printers (which aren't really in the same class...for one, the ink tanks on them, at least our big HP, last forever! We were stunned at how long they lasted under our use; printing posters for scientific meetings and such.)
We really looked into this when we were making the decision to lease our Xerox color printer.
With B&W printing the difference is staggering, though; lasers rule.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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