Laser printers have grown tremendously in popularity over the past few years.
Because of their unmatched print quality and speed, many office managers choose to purchase laser printers for their office.
If you are considering purchasing a laser printer for your workplace or your home office, there are a few factors you will need to take into account to determine whether a laser printer is the right choice for you.
Make sure you do your research on the brand you want to buy.
Check the purchase price of the printer and see how it compares to similar models.
Remember, the higher-cost printer may not necessarily be the highest quality, while the cheapest model may not be such a good value in the long run.
Be sure to check customer reviews to find out how these perform in real world situations and approximately how long they last before service is needed.
Remember that laser printers use toner and toner is expensive.
Consider this cost when figuring out the purchase price of your new printer.
Most printers will come with a toner cartridge, although it may not be full.
Think about how many pages you'll be printing and how often you'll have to purchase toner.
You may want to consider purchasing an inexpensive inkjet printer to print unimportant, everyday documents and reserve the laser printer for more important documents or photographs.
The money you save on toner will pay for the inexpensive inject printer after just a month or two of heavy use.
Another thing to consider when weighing the cost is the expected drum life.
The drum in the printer probably has a normal lifespan of about 10,000 pages on average.
This number is for most consumer-grade printers.
While many people in a home office will probably never come close to printing 10,000 pages, a busy corporate office can reach that number easily.
The cost of replacing a drum in laser printer is roughly equal to buying a new laser printer, which is probably what most people would do.
Another thing to consider is whether or not your office needs the use of a color printer.
Obviously, if you do a lot of high quality graphical printing, you will need a color printer.
Color printers are more expensive and require the use of Cyan, Blue, Magenta, Yellow and Black toner - otherwise known as CMYK toner.
These individual toners will have to be replaced at differing times, depending on the colors you use most often.
In most cases, the Black toner will need to be replaced most often.
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