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Hardware that Just Works

Posted Jan 11, 2007 10:04 UTC (Thu) by mmarkov (guest, #4978)
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HP Officejet does not a laser printer but an inkjet, right? In the past, the quality of ink printers used to be noticeably lower than that of laser printers. I dunno about the current models though.

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Posted Jan 11, 2007 20:32 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] (1 responses)

Correct, the OfficeJets are inkjet based, the laser printers have the word laser in them (ie LaserJet).

As far as quality goes -- I have an OfficeJet 6110 all-in-one (and my wife has another) as well as an older HP 2100TN LaserJet. Print quality is comparable, although with a magnifying glass (or younger eyes) or printing very fine linework you might see a difference (in favor of the laser). The laser is of course faster (once it gets started), cheaper per-page, holds more paper, and has built-in networking -- but it also cost several hundred dollars more than the inkjets, and doesn't do color (or copy, scan, fax, etc).

You can get laser-based all-in-ones now, I believe, but again there's a price premium. Depends how much printing you plan on doing, though; for high volumes the lower per-page cost of laser toner will make up for the higher initial price.

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Posted Jan 16, 2007 21:02 UTC (Tue) by davdunc (subscriber, #12473) [Link]

Thanks for posting the model number. That sure does help those of us considering a purchase.