Do You Know the Difference Between Inkjet Printers and Laser Printers?

Many people think that laser printer.must be more advanced than inkjet printers. They think that inkjet printers are outdated, but this is not the case. In fact, both printers have their own characteristics and applications. Here I'll simplify explain the differences of the two printing machines from different aspects.

1.The price

The price of ink jet printers is lower than that of laser printers.And economical inkjet printing is even more than 300 yuan, which can meet the buyers who can realize printing functions and have a very limited budget. Laser printers are generally more expensive, even if they are entry-level products and about 900 yuan.

2.Print clarity

The clarity of the inkjet printer is its absolute advantage. The printing resolution of the laser printer is generally up to 1200dpi, and its print pattern has a very serious dot matrix feature. Even the color laser printer, its image printing quality also determines that it can not produce high quality photographs but can only be used to print ordinary drawings. At this point, inkjet printers have an advantage.Even if it is an economical inkjet printer, its resolution can achieve a resolution of 4000 dpi or more.High-end inkjet printers can achieve a print resolution of 9600dpi. With the special photo printing paper, it can completely replace the traditional photo printing method, if it can be replaced by the traditional photo printing method.If you have been to a digital printing shop and pay attention to observation, they are used to print photos without exception.That’s an inkjet printer.

3. Applicable paper

There are many paper types that can be used in inkjet printers. Common printing paper, envelopes, photo special paper, CD cover paper, etc. can all be used in inkjet printers.And some high-grade inkjet printers can print the disc directly with a printable disc and a disc bracket.In contrast, the laser printer can only be applied to ordinary paper because its printing consumables are laser toner. If a glossy photo paper and CD cover paper are used,the paper itself has low adhesion. After the printing, there will be toner detachment which will affect the preservation of the printed matter. Therefore, the optical disk tray is generally not provided in the laser printer, and there is no function of directly printing the optical disk.

4.The consumables

People who have used inkjet printers are aware that its print cartridges are not cheap at all. For economic printers, the price of ink cartridges may even be higher than that the printer itself and ink cartridges are very inefficient. The general theoretical number of printed pages (A4 paper 5% coverage) only 200-300 pages.A slightly larger color range will have a significant impact on the life of the cartridge.While the laser printer is slightly higher than the price of cartridge toner, the number of pages printed is more than ink-jet,the number of printers is several times higher, and the theoretical number of printed pages is generally around 2000 pages.So the laser printer has an absolute advantage in printing costs.

5.Printing speed

The inkjet printer prints one line at a time, and the laser printer completely outputs one page at a time.The printing principle is completely different. Therefore, the printing speed of the ink jet printer can be said to be completely incomparable with the laser printer. The speed of the printer is definitely the winner, although you can set the inkjet printer to the fastest printing mode to get close to the speed of the laser printer, but the cost is that your print quality will fall to the worst grade.

In summary,inkjet printers are suitable for high quality and special printing.Laser printers are suitable for users who have a relatively large budget and pursue simple, low-cost, large-volume printing of documents due to their low cost per page.


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