Thread: InkJet vs LaserJet

Have care with what you get - laser is the way forwards but like with any printer consumables get you by the balls and then seriously start squeezing...

Have a quiet look at what consumables cost before you pull the trigger on one. Having said that, lasers tend to be much more reliable than inkjets as you have suggested - the bloody ink is an absolute bastard. I had an A3 inkjet, it died due to internal software crapping out which is kind of unusual - it stopped duplex printing PDF documents but was fine for everything else. Very sucky. Should have kept it for A3 target printing, but I put my foot through it in an act of revenge. Technology that doesn't function is my personal kryptonite, that's for real.

Replaced it with a colour laser which apart from the cost of toner is light years ahead of the inkjet - although it did have to go back for a warranty repair recently as it let the magic smoke out of the internal power supply board that takes 230v and turns it into the DC that the printer runs off. Bang, done...

That being said - if you sniff around on Trademe and Facebook Marketplace you will often find working B&W lasers being nearly given away as people have upgraded. Just have to make sure you can still get consumables and that they are the wifi-capable type or at the very least USB-connected so you can plug them into your Wifi router at home and access them from the router directly.