thanhhuy123
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I know that this topic has been around for a very long time and there has been already too many discussions out there. However, as technology has been significantly evolved, yesterday claims might not hold their correctness anymore, so let's refresh it by having this topic.
So, for today technology, choosing inkjet vs laser printing technology might all come down to 2 criteria of consuming products: paper, and ink/toner, and 3 criteria of others: frequency of printing, volume of printing and electricity.
Here is some of the criteria combination, off the top of my head:
Please join with me and share your ideas/opinions to correct anything wrong, improve things claimed in this post.
- It was said that inkjet printers cannot handle high volume of printing:
Maybe it's still true with SOHO level inkjet printers. However, there are inkjet printers made for the enterprise which has monthly-duty-cycle of tens of thousands of pages. For example, HP Officejet Pro X series or Enterprise series or the RISO ComColor digital duplicators. I don't know much about Epson, but I think Epson has the equivalent. - It was said that inkjet printers cannot print as fast as laser: HP Officejet Pro X series with HP PageWide technology can print up to 70ppm. RISO ComColor with similar page-wide piezo printhead and special ink can print up to 150ppm.
- It was said that inkjet printers cannot print text as crisp text as laser: inkjet printers made for office use I believe, use all pigment-based ink (either water-based or oil-based like RISO printer series) for all colours and black, so the printout on paper should be crisp enough and comparable to laser.
So, for today technology, choosing inkjet vs laser printing technology might all come down to 2 criteria of consuming products: paper, and ink/toner, and 3 criteria of others: frequency of printing, volume of printing and electricity.
Here is some of the criteria combination, off the top of my head:
- If we hardly ever print, print very low to low volume (like a few pages every now and then, sometimes tens of pages, etc.) and print on plain paper only: definitely go laser!
- If we hardly ever print, print very low to low volume (like a few pages every now and then, sometimes tens of pages, etc.) but need to print on various paper types: hmm better go to a printing services and have them do it for us. Or we can go with inkjet, but need weekly nozzle-check printing (yeah, that's the price to pay for enjoying printing at home).
- If we hardly ever print, print medium to high volume and print on plain paper only: definitely go laser!
- If we hardly ever print, print medium to high volume but need to print on various paper types: definitely go with a printing service!
- If we print frequently, print very low to low volume (like a few pages every now and then, sometimes tens of pages, etc.) and print on plain paper only and you don't care about electricity consumption or power spike when a laser printer is turned on: definitely go laser!
- If we print frequently, print very low to low volume (like a few pages every now and then, sometimes tens of pages, etc.) and print on plain paper only/or various paper types, and/or you need something light on power: go with inkjet printers that have print head on the ink cartridges (Integrated Print Head - IPH, like some low-end HP/Canon)
- If we print frequently, print medium to high volume and print on plain paper only and you don't care about electricity consumption or power spike when a laser printer is turned on: definitely go laser!
- If we print frequently, print medium to high volume and print on plain paper only/or various paper types, and/or you need something light on power: go with high-end inkjet printers, like: HP Officejet Pro/ Pro X/Enterprise series.
- If we print frequently and with very high volume, text on plain paper only: then we might consider something more than an inkjet printer, something like digital duplicators, like RISO ComColor 9xxx.
Please join with me and share your ideas/opinions to correct anything wrong, improve things claimed in this post.