RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > I strongly recommend a laser printer over an inkjet even for home > > use. The reduced running costs and better reliability are easily > > worth the lack of colour, IMO. > > How do they compare for light and occasional use? I'm thinking in > terms of a few pages, a few times a year, so presumably the > consumables become perishables.
Laser 'consumables' do _not_ suffer problems if the printer is only used occasionally. This is, in fact, one of the *BIG* advantaes of lasers over inkpee units. The 'cost per page' of output, at the rated pagecount is substantially lower for lasers, *AND* you will get the rated pagecount, even if it takes a decade, or longer. I've got a low-end laser I bought, *used*, over a decade ago. I have -yet- to replace the _used_ toner cartridge that came with the printer. Print quality is still as good as when I got it. My 'total cost of ownership' is, so far, around $3/year, and _declining_. Or, under two cents per page, _including_ the cost of the hardware. With inkpee printers you have to print a some pages every couple of weeks (preferably somewhat more often) or you run a _high_ probability of the cartridge having gotten 'gummed up', and rendered unusable, *despite* the amount of ink remaining in it. In 'lightly used' units, this can result in a _tripling_ (or more) of the (already high) 'true cost' per page of output. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
