[GRLUG] want to buy a B&W printer

[Bob Kline]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:19:26AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > well, and people continue to get gouged pretty deeply by the cost.
> > >  Get a big office machine and the ink containers hold a pint of ink.
> > >  In a home printers it's a tiny thimble full.
> >
> > Ink can spoil, btw. We had a professional HP color inkjet here at the
> > office that went unused for too long, and the ink spoiled. (I think it
> > dried out, not sure.)
>
> I've had cartridges dry out.  It's very frustrating to have ~$30 worth
> of ink dry up and be unusable.
>
> For total cost of ownership laser printers are the way to go.  You pay
> more up front but the cost per page is significantly lower.  Over the
> course of several years (which the average laser printer *will* last)
> the savings on toner will more than compensate for the higher cost of
> the printer.
> --
> john-thomas
>

Seems right.  Laser printers have come
way down in price, and time for the first
page is down from many minutes to several
seconds.  And of course the cartridges are
stable when not used.

    -- Bob

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