This is actually the sole reason I went with laser - I print so rarely that a traditional inkjet would not stand up to long periods of inactivity, as the ink wells would either dry up or the printer firmware would force replacement.
A monochrome laserjet should run you about the same price as an inkjet and cartridge refills (since the included inkjet cartridges won’t last long), and would probably suit 90% of most user needs. I highly recommend the Brother line of monochrome laser with duplexer, mine is 10 years old and going strong.
Second-ing Brother, there. Best all around one, and it doesn’t have crap like vendor-locked ink cartridges, firmware that’s dependent on PC-specific software that doesn’t get updates, and all the other malicious printer company tricks you see common at HP and others. Printers that are cheap require expensive ink for the vendor to make their profits. Reasonably priced printers are usually not subject to that scammy selling tactic.
Got a Brother laser printer when I was still at home because I got tired of using the cheapo inkjet. Because everytime we needed something printed we’d have to run to the store and buy $50+ in black and color cartridges for 1 or 2 pages. I took my printer with me when I moved out and helped my parents pick out an identical printer because they liked mine so much lol.
OMG, same here. I got tired of buying a new inkjet every 2 years or so. I bought a Brother laser all-in-one 4 yrs ago and haven’t looked back. My only regret was not spending the extra bucks to get a color model.
Don’t blame me. I don’t even own a printer. On the extremely rare occasion that I actually need to print something there are plenty of places that will do it for pennies. I haven’t spent more than a dollar in a year since I gave up owning a printer of my own, and the prints are all way higher quality anyway. A laser printer still costs more than an inkjet and the ink to fill it though, and the idea that years down the line it will pay for itself just doesn’t occur to or even matter to most people.
Wasn’t that their point though? That the laser is lower running cost but despite that still not worth it for someone who doesn’t print often enough? If savings in running cost are such that it’ll take a decade to recoup the difference in initial outlay at the rate of home printing then despite the laser being objectively better it might not be worth it for extremely low volume printing.
I goddamn hate my piece of shit inkjet and didn’t know laser printers had become something viable for consumers so I’d love for them to be wrong.
Most of the times the printer will be cheaper, so people will buy it, but later the ink will be expensive, which is were these companies will make all the money…
Serious question. Why are people buying ink based printers when laser printers exist?
Because most people print so rarely that it doesn’t actually make sense to invest in a more expensive machine with lower running costs.
This is actually the sole reason I went with laser - I print so rarely that a traditional inkjet would not stand up to long periods of inactivity, as the ink wells would either dry up or the printer firmware would force replacement.
A monochrome laserjet should run you about the same price as an inkjet and cartridge refills (since the included inkjet cartridges won’t last long), and would probably suit 90% of most user needs. I highly recommend the Brother line of monochrome laser with duplexer, mine is 10 years old and going strong.
Second-ing Brother, there. Best all around one, and it doesn’t have crap like vendor-locked ink cartridges, firmware that’s dependent on PC-specific software that doesn’t get updates, and all the other malicious printer company tricks you see common at HP and others. Printers that are cheap require expensive ink for the vendor to make their profits. Reasonably priced printers are usually not subject to that scammy selling tactic.
Same here. I have a Brother 2370DW that I’ve owned for around three years and it’s still using the toner that came with it.
The only color prints I’d make are photos and those get sent out to a printing service.
Got a Brother laser printer when I was still at home because I got tired of using the cheapo inkjet. Because everytime we needed something printed we’d have to run to the store and buy $50+ in black and color cartridges for 1 or 2 pages. I took my printer with me when I moved out and helped my parents pick out an identical printer because they liked mine so much lol.
OMG, same here. I got tired of buying a new inkjet every 2 years or so. I bought a Brother laser all-in-one 4 yrs ago and haven’t looked back. My only regret was not spending the extra bucks to get a color model.
OMG this is such a fallacy… Inkjets cost SOOOO much more to run than a laser that uses toner that doesn’t dry up like ink cartridges do.
Don’t blame me. I don’t even own a printer. On the extremely rare occasion that I actually need to print something there are plenty of places that will do it for pennies. I haven’t spent more than a dollar in a year since I gave up owning a printer of my own, and the prints are all way higher quality anyway. A laser printer still costs more than an inkjet and the ink to fill it though, and the idea that years down the line it will pay for itself just doesn’t occur to or even matter to most people.
Wasn’t that their point though? That the laser is lower running cost but despite that still not worth it for someone who doesn’t print often enough? If savings in running cost are such that it’ll take a decade to recoup the difference in initial outlay at the rate of home printing then despite the laser being objectively better it might not be worth it for extremely low volume printing.
I goddamn hate my piece of shit inkjet and didn’t know laser printers had become something viable for consumers so I’d love for them to be wrong.
Most of the times the printer will be cheaper, so people will buy it, but later the ink will be expensive, which is were these companies will make all the money…
The colours are better