Printers

[ciphergoth]

I'm looking into buying a printer for the downstairs flat, for printing letters and emails mostly. How do I go about choosing a printer so that I don't get reamed on ink costs?

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[envoy.livejournal.com]

Look into laser printers, really. If you only need black ink printing their cost-per-page can be a fraction of the inkjets. For any printer you look at go look up their cost-per-page, it's amazing how much it can vary.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Thanks - where do I go to look up the cost per page?

[envoy.livejournal.com]

A quick run at Google didn't help much, lots of talk on the topic, but not a lot of figures...

I'd step it out like this:

Figure out of you need color printing or not, 'cause that's a big one. Then figure out how much printing you're going to do. Strangely, if you're only printing very infrequently you might still be better off with a laser printer because inket cartridges dry out over time (a fact that pisses me off *no* end.)

Once you know if you need color or black and white, start looking at individual models and try searching on the model number with cost per page, hopefully that should get you some real numbers.