what are the merits or advantages using ink jet laser printers?
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the guy above is right - ink jet is "cheaper", and laser is faster and has higher quality. \n\nIn US, they have a nasty habit of selling ink-jet printers cheap, but charging high price for ink. So per page price is kinda comparable between ink-jet and laser. The only problem is that you need to print thousands of pages to justify the cost or laser equipment, so ink-jet might be a better solution for home or small office.
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>A laser printer is a computer printer that produces high-resolution output by means of a process that is similar to photocopying. In place of reflected light from an image (as is used in xerography), a laser printer uses data sent from a computer to turn a laser beam on and off rapidly as it scans a charged drum. The drum then attracts toner powder to the areas not exposed to the light. Finally, the toner is fused to paper over a belt by heated rollers. In a write-black printer the laser positively charges the printed areas to attract the toner, which gives better detail than a write-white printer. In a write-white printer, the beam negatively charges the areas not to be printed to repel the toner, which gives a denser image. Faster, quieter, and capable of producing more attractive results than standard printers, laser printers have become an important means of printing business documents since they became more generally available.\n\nFor more information check out the site below.
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all printers are good to the person useing in it..you must had like it if you bought it, if it fell in your lap, yea there not bad....
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HP is my favorite.  You can even run them from a battery for total freedom.  These use an actual ink cartridge that's refillable!\n\nDell uses a thermal film transfer that works well.  Same as Kodak.\n\nEpson has an ink cartridge/paper pack refill system and works well.\n\nYour choice depends on who you trust for service and dependability.  I have had good luck with all of the above.
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I am not fond of Lightscribe as many users have stated, a bit expensive on the drive and also the media is quite expensive.\n\nI have a regular burner (cheap) and I have a printer that allows you to feed inkjet printable DVD's to print any picture on the DVD.  It looks very good.\n\nEpson and HP.  All you have to do is make sure you get the inkjet printable media.  They are very cheap on the web and good quality also.  Stick with Ritek for the single layers.\n\nYou can also download covers so you don't have to scan them yourself.\n\nhttp://www.cdcovers.cc/\n\nThey really look great and I create cover art for a lot of my home movies and people think I got those printed by some expensive production house.
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Try this link. Helps try googling for more\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkjet_printer
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With most of these things it is best to check the price of the consumables. \nYou may find that the blades for the more expensive one are much cheaper than the blades for the cheaper one. \nYou buy the razor one time, but you are going to be buying the blades quite often, so the real cost is in the blades. \nIt is the same with printers; a cheap printer may have great quality print, but if the ink cartridges cost a fortune, then in the long term, the cheap printer may be much more expensive that a much more expensive printer with cheap cartridges.
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The only one I can think of is cost - it would be cheaper to type or write one by hand and photocopy it; however, that would be a false economy as even a black&white laser printed brochure would almost certainly increase sales by more than the cost difference.\n\nThere may be advantages and disadvantages to particular avenues of IT - e.g. using InDesign vs Publisher (although the first costs more up front, it will save you your money if your brochures are printed externally; prepress costs will be much lower - in fact, most print shops will actively discourage or refuse to deal with Publisher output. Once you're using a print shop, your cost per page will be much lower than printing on a typical colour laser).
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you can print pictures with any desk-jet or ink-jet printer by using photo-quality paper instead of normal photo-state paper. things to think when buying a printer are:\n\n1. initial cost vs running cost: ink-jet printers are cheap as far as initial cost is concerned but exepnsive in terms of running costs, such as ink cartridges, tonners etc.\n\n2. your normal value of papers-per-minute (printing speed). if you want a printer for home use, go for a slower printer no need to spend more on fast printers.\n\n3. more colors more beauty.
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If you are looking to print the highest quality photos your inkjet can produce, than the combination of ink and paper is very, very important.  Follow the suggestions of the manufacturer unless you want to take the time (and expense) of experimenting yourself.\n\nIf you are just asking becuase some paper is labeled laser paper and other is inkjet, and your use is typical business, then you have more leeway.  In that  case try a few and see what gives you the best results...\n\nI have used 'laser' paper in my inkjets with results that I was very please with...
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buyerslab.com will have that info, but you need a subscription to use it and you'd have to do the math yourself.  If they're both lasers the copier will be between .005 to .015 per copy, the printer will usually be between .019 and .05 per print.  \n\nQuite often it will cost you $20 more per ream of paper to use a printer.  If it is an inkjet the costs are a lot higher
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If you don't plan on using it a whole bunch, you might consider the HP 5440. It costs about $70 and the black and color cartridge can be bought together in a pack for $30. \n\nIf you do quite a bit of printing take a look at the HP 5940 ($100) as it's built a little heftier and also comes with cartridges that last longer but cost a little more.\n\nThe HP 6980 is another good choice since it comes with wireless networking and costs about $150. It also has cartridges that last longer.\n\nHP printers are the best selling printers by far in the United States and PC Magazine's readers have voted them the best 14 years in a row.
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Hello. I recently purchased an HP 3600n Color Laser* from Office Depot to replace 2 of my three printers. To date I am very happy with the results. It did not completely replace my HP G85, since it is also my primary fax machine. It did however replace my Lexmark 4039 10Plus and all primary color printing. It still leaves me with an OkiData 390 to print labels. I use the 5000 box of continious feed labels, so at the moment there is nothing I can do about replacing it. Between my two companies, the wifes eBay and the three kids printing daily, we print a case of paper a month (5000 sheets).\nI would have loved to have purchased an all-in-one color laser but all things consided I am very happy.\nOne thing that swayed me to the HP, in that price range, was it came with a print server built in.\n\nI hope this helpped.
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The cartridge with the ink in it executes that function.LOL\n\nAn inkjet printer is any printer that fires extremely small droplets of ink onto paper to create an image. If you've ever looked at a piece of paper that has come out of an ink jet printer, you know that: \n\nThe dots are extremely small (between 10 and 30 dots per millimeter). \n\nDifferent types of inkjet printers form their droplets of ink in different ways. There are several technologies used by printer manufacturers, but by far the most popular technique is the bubble jet. In a bubble jet printer, tiny resistors create heat, and this heat vaporizes ink to create a bubble. The expansion that creates the bubble causes a droplet to form and eject from the print head. A typical bubble jet print head has 64 or 128 tiny nozzles, and all of them can fire a droplet simultaneously.\n\nThe primary principle at work in a laser printer is static electricity, the same energy that makes clothes in the dryer stick together or a lightning bolt travel from a thundercloud to the ground. Static electricity is simply an electrical charge built up on an insulated object, such as a balloon or your body. Since oppositely charged atoms are attracted to each other, objects with opposite static electricity fields cling together.\n\nDye-sublimation printers allow you to print photo-lab-quality pictures at home. As the price of these printers go down, more and more digital-camera owners are choosing to take advantage of this technology. In dye-sublimation printing, colors are not laid down as individual dots, as is done in inkjet printers. Individual dots can be distinguished at a relatively close distance, making digital pictures look less realistic. \nIf you looked inside a dye-sublimation printer, you would see a long roll of transparent film that resembles sheets of red, blue, yellow, and gray colored cellophane stuck together end to end. Embedded in this film are solid dyes corresponding to the four basic colors used in printing: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The print head heats up as it passes over the film, causing the dyes to vaporize and permeate the glossy surface of the paper before they return to solid form. \n\nSo the main difference between this and other types of printing has to do with heat. The vaporized colors permeate the surface of the paper, creating a gentle gradation at the edges of each pixel, instead of the conspicuous border between dye and paper produced by inkjets. And because the color infuses the paper, it is also less vulnerable to fading and distortion over time. \n\nThe dots are positioned very precisely. \nIn color printers, the dots can have multiple colors\n\n\nemail me at: hell_stinker@yahoo.com\nhope I answered ur question !!!
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Go to \n\nhttp://dyesubinks.com/index.php?pageto=printers.htm\n\nIt should answer your question.
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Ok, first of all, unless you are buying a laser printer that can handle input from DOS and uses an internal font, then the computer is sending VASTLY more than a few K to print even a simple letter.\n\nThe reason is that the image is sent over as (for example) a 600 x 600 dpi bitmap.  If you are printing a full page, it can be in the megabytes in theory.\n\nI do agree though, that the computer will handle this effortlessly.\n\nAs for whether this is a feature or not, it is a way to make the printer cheaper - like video cards that use the computers memory - if you are after a REALLY cheap printer, this might fit the bill nicely.\n\nDo bear in mind though, that COLOUR lasers can be found for under £200 / $400 if you shop around. It may be out of your price range, but if if "close", perhaps something to conisder....
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Go with the HP.\n\nAs for the follow up most printers use alcohol based inks so smearing or even disappearing shouldn't be a problem.  \n\nAlthough it may be an idea to see if the store will provide you with a test page from the printer.  That way you will know for sure.