Colour Laser Printers/ copiers

[Jelly_Sheffield]

That's a 1990's view of inkjets to be frank. The output quality is not discernible from laser these days, it can even be better on the photo quality ones. I have a Kyocera MFP, colour laser which is a proper office quality machine. I also have an Epson Ecotank aimed at home users. Same paper, same results, very different cost.

In the 90's I tried one of the first Canon Bubblejets and would agree they were terrible. Now though, often better than laser.

From my perspective inkjets are still the inferior choice for a main printer:
- they're still way slower,
- much more expensive per page, and
- they just don't last as long in terms of service life, offsetting the cheaper upfront cost.

Laser also has the advantage that it won't run if the prints get wet like inkjet, which a big practical advantage for printing labels or documents.

We have a Brother inkjet for when we need colour printing in my partner's office, and a HP B&W laserjet in mine, the laser gets used most days, the inkjet maybe every six months...

It being quicker for her to do a network print to my office, and walk through to pick it up, than to wait for the printer on her desk.

Oh, and look at the tech in CAD quality A0 plotters, yes, inkjet.

The performance is impressive, but they need to be used regularly or the print heads (which are expensive and separate) can give up the ghost rapidly.

I gave mine away in the end to a friend who prints posters and other large format stuff as a side-business... They're using it several times a week and it's been fine for them, I used it a couple of times a month and it was unreliable and time consuming.

 

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The Brother (of the choice between Brother and HP). With the document feeder. A4.

Model DCP-L3560CDW

My mono Brother MFC of the 1990s (?) provided far better results than mono inkjets of the time. My wife bought a colour inkjet, while the second mono laser was used a lot, and likely several of them over the years. The last one (a HP) is on its way to the recycling dump.

I won’t be doing much colour but it is there when I want it. I am content with my purchase - it arrived within 24 hours of placing the order. Somehow I think I likely didn’t need the spare set of toner cartridges I bought with it. Less than £420.