At work where time is important, I have a color laser multifunction machine. It is fast, but the toner cartridges cost a lot.
The older inkjet printers were very expensive to operate, but the newer ones run off of reservoirs the user refills with bottles of liquids. This is supposed to be much cheaper. My endocrinologist uses one of these, and it prints reasonably fast, but not the speed of a laser printer.
The inkjets cost about $150 less than the lasers initially.
Anyone have any thoughts about the merits for a color laser versus a newer inkjet for home use?
I use an old HP Laserjet P1505 workstation printer I got at Costco 10 years ago for $150 and a Brother HL-L8360CDW color laser printer I bought from Amazon in 2017 or so for $500.
I’ve owned four HP color laser printers and found all of them inferior to the Brother HL-L8360CDW.
I get off-brand toner cartridges from 1ink.com and don’t have any issues with toner, and it’s pretty cheap.
I stick to 24-lb bond paper for most applications and occasionally use 32-lb bond for some graphics and instruction application. Both printers have proven pretty trouble-free and dependable. I’ve had a couple of inkjet printers but I wouldn’t have one today.
I occasionally use an old HP printer/scanner that ran out of ink 10 years ago that I use as a dedicated scanner. But even as a scanner it is not as good as using my iPhone with the Genius scanner which comes with the Genius Fax app and scans directly to multi-page PDF documents.
My printer from the office is a MFC Brother. The cartridges are expensive. The cheap off brand ones are often reloaded and often do not work. I learned the hard way.