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In these times of economic recession, companies are being forced to do whatever they can to reduce expenditure; including taking action to reduce the amount of money spent on office supplies, electricity bills and printing costs. On the face of it, buying an inkjet printer appears to be the best option for a company looking to save money on printing costs because they cost as little as £20, compared to the alternative expensive laser printers. Closer inspection, however, will reveal that a laser printer can actually save your company much more money than an inkjet!
Inkjet printers can be bought for as little as £20-30 and produce fantastic image quality on a range of surfaces. However, the catch is that, despite their very slow printing rate, their ink cartridges run out incredibly quickly and very often the price of a new cartridge is almost as much as the printer itself! Printing around 1000 mixed text and graphics pages, for example, would require a normal inkjet printer to have its ink cartridge changed approximately 4-5 times! The implications of this for the cost of printing are obvious; if your company does a fair amount of printing, even the cheapest inkjet printer is likely to cost well your company hundreds of pounds within the first year of use.
The alternative option is to buy a laser printer, though it is true that these cost between £200-400 for a colour version and they will not produce as high an image quality as an inkjet printer. However, laser printers do produce better text quality at a much faster rate than inkjet printers and – more importantly – even 1000 pages of text is not enough to drain the toner cartridge of most laser printers! Hence, despite the higher initial cost, a laser printer is almost guaranteed to save your company money in the long run – which is the very point of sensible investments, is it not? What’s more, monochrome laser printers can be found as for a price as low as £120; the equivalent of a middle-of-the-line HP inkjet printer with a few replacement HP Ink Cartridges!
To put the figures into something comprehendible; printing this article on an inkjet printer, complete with surrounding colour images, would cost you around 8p. To do so on a colour laser printer would cost 1-2p – it does not take long for such a saving to add up and eventually save you a tidy sum. When the time does come to purchase a new toner cartridge you will find that they are commonly stocked by high street stationary retailers, although the best value toner cartridges are found online via retailers like HP Printer Cartridges.
Another thing to factor into the overall cost of a printer is the amount of times you are likely to need it repaired. Although they are getting smaller by the month, laser printers do tend to take up more room than inkjets and this must be taking into account when deciding whether one will be suitable for your office. However, this hardier build does make laser printers sturdier than inkjets and their lack of bubbling liquid ink also makes them far less likely to break down. Furthermore, their deep paper trays and large volumes of toner mean that less time is wasted refilling the various parts of the printer on a weekly basis. For large offices, or small ones that do a lot of printing, a laser printer really can save a massive amount of money, whilst producing better quality text at a much faster rate. Unless crystal clear images are a necessity for your company’s success, it is advisable to buy a more expensive laser printer over an inkjet if you want to save money and get the job done on time.
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