I don't think I've ever seen or used a laser one. Unless they had it in my uni but didn't notice it. Is it the new thing?
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it has been around for a long time and your Uni most likely using them.
True true, but you never know. The problem I guess is that they would then increase the prices of the printer and the ink to ensure they still can make a profit. And then people won't buy from them and stick with the awful printer companies
The thing is that people are used to buy cheap printers (100$-150$) and when buying a laser one that costs around 5 times more they think they're getting scammed. In the long run you'll need to just buy toner for em that lasts at least 50 times more the classic ink printers. It only remains a good option if you just need a couple of prints per month.
Mine was even cheaper lol. My printer was like £40 I think. It's not great but we've moved on to using refilled ink catridges that are cheaper and it's not as bad now. We don't really use it either so a laser print would be pointless and not worth the cost.
Wrong, they are also a good option if you have a high volume need as well. Most inkjet printers at best can do 1500 if even that where laser printers can push out 3000 if not more pages. Though the new eco tank printers that came out have been fixing that issue.
Printers are an actual scam though. Adam Conover tells you how in an episode of his TV show Adam Ruins Everything.
If you go for the cheap ones or don't pay attention the ink prices, then yes. But there are some that can get you ahead in the game.
Ah, I never really saw the laser but I suppose it was done internally.
Beep! Wrong reply man. 1500-3000 ain't a number for a laser printer, most of its parts can pull 300k-500k copies WITHOUT any part replacement. You'll need to buy at least 10 of those to make it up.
This is a printer we have in our office. 175880 copies without changing anything just doing the normal maintenance every month (cleaning) we have a room using paper well litted to prevent humidity. This was my point! imagine having to buy a cartridge every 500 copies (around 60$)
And buying from the official distributor is around the same price for a laser printer and lasts at least for 10000 copies.
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cheaper the printer means also the more it costs for the ink is what I been told and at times they can be right but comes down to the brands
Well if you got a high end office printer those will push out a lot more than the commercial ones I often had sell. The ones I sold at max they can do between 3000-4500 prints which for commercial use is a good deal.
Generic can be better, but it can also be not as good.
I wouldn't call it high-end, this one we have is around 500$. The high-ends are the big coloured ones and has all of those document finishers and cost around 5000-10000$.
Even the cheapest ones
Are worth more than those. Even toners are cheap and lasts a decent numbers of copies (5k)
I've sold one or two of those a long time ago (a pain to carry out), they are pretty good. Though I've read mixed feedback on the actual output.
I worked in an office filling out and submitting doctor applications so they could get their state license. My boss would get us the crappiest printers. I went through 5 of them. This is what we were using to print out our forms.
I never have to deal with printers on a daily basis. We have a cheap Canon one, but we rarely use it. I do remember back in High School we had good expensive printers, I can't remember the brand though. I do know one of them was a laser jet printer, and I was able to print off pictures if I got my work done in keyboarding class Freshman year of HS. xD
Mom bought a damn expensive printer back then too, and i used to print my waifu's posters and when mom realised i did that they sold the printer
There's a copy machine at my work that everyone hates. It doesn't want to print most of the time. I swear the software on it is messed up. I really wish we could throw it out like this person did in the video.