Why Laser Printers Outshine Your Inkjet Printer
When it comes to speed and clarity, laser printers outshine your inkjet printer every single time. An inkjet printer is the standard for many small businesses because of their price, size and availability, but you could be leaving money on the table but sticking with your inkjet printer rather than taking advantage of everything today's laser printers have to offer.
Time is money, right? At when it comes to business, your time is almost always better spent on other things than waiting for your printer to finish a big job. That inkjet printer you have always relied on for your printing needs puts out quality documents, to be sure, but it also takes a fair amount of your time. Laser printers run circles around inkjet printers when it comes to print time. A typical inkjet printer will print about 10 – 25 pages per minute, depending on whether you are printing black and white or color pages. Laser printers can print closer to 21 – 35 pages per minute with the same conditions. In fact, some of the newest laser printers claim as high as 50 ppm when printing black and white text. If your business prints large documents or high volumes or documents, the time saved can add up quickly, which frees you up to do more productive things that require your face-to-face input.
Another way that laser printers outperform an inkjet printer is in the quality of the print on the page, Because laser printers use ink toner, which is a powdered substance made of polymers and carbons, and heat, the ink is actually fused directly with the fibers of the paper used. Because the text is fused into the paper, the durability of the product is unmatched. Even the highest quality inks will rub off, micro-dot by micro-dot at a time. Eventually, the document just doesn't have the same clarity and sharpness of text that it did originally. Laser printing doesn't produce that problem, because no actual ink is used. The laser printer document is cleaner as well, for the same reason. Because the ink doesn't rub off, there is no mess associated with ink on your fingers. Even though the transfer is so minute you may not actually notice it, if you are working with a lot of pages for a long time, you will notice that pages from a laser printer keep your fingers cleaner.
Cleaner, sharper, faster- it's easy to see why your inkjet printer is losing out to the laser printers now on the market. Laser printers simply outshine that inkjet printer in these three areas- why not consider making the change in your small business office.
