A COMMON and often popular choice among consumers, inkjet printers remain to be one of the most bought printers to date. But, the question is, do consumers really know what their money (or at least, they) are getting into?
So we decided to give you information and some inputs about whether or not you should spend a dime for an inkjet printer.
How does an inkjet printer work? It propels droplets of ink from a small removable cartridge unto the paper. Normally, it contains a black cartridge and three different colored cartridges. You can either replace the whole cartridge or refill the cartridges with a special refill kit.
Due to the cost of the ink cartridge replacements, running an inkjet printer over time is more expensive than a laser printer. Most ink cartridges have a standard capacity of only a few hundred pages. Thus, inkjet printers are no good for high-volume printing as this would be too costly to keep, what with the constant replacement of expensive ink cartridges.
Fresh print outputs from the printer are slightly wet and may need time to dry. This means that you have to be very careful with your printouts not to have any contact with water as the ink is aqueous (water-based). If it does have contact with water, you will notice the ink to blur and spread out all over the page. You don’t want to waste your time by printing all over again. Moreover, you don’t wanna waste the costly ink.
Printing is also slower with inkjets. You will spend significantly longer waiting time for your prints to be finished. Normal black text prints may be relatively fast but with more complex images, printing may take a longer time. A longer time to print and even much longer time to dry it out.
We have done our part. So, whether to buy or not to buy an inkjet printer, the choice is all yours.