On Tue, September 9, 2014 13:03, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Tue, September 9, 2014 11:56 am, John R Pierce wrote:
On 9/9/2014 9:42 AM, a. wrote:
its imho cheaper than the huge investment costs of laser printers.
B&W laser printers are as cheap as $70, for example, Brother HL-2240, and have vastly lower price-per-page... they print well on the cheapest copier paper (inkjets tend to need premium surfaced papers or they look very smudgy), the toner cartridges are /way/ cheaper than inkjet inks per page.
Basically I would choose based on what you will print. It these are tax returns and other important documents, then it has to be laser. These documents then will survive flood. If these are photographs, then it has to be ink printer (color is the one I would get). As ink blends, but the powder of laser printers doesn't. Hence the difference in reproducing half-tones, gradual color changes.
Water immersion survivability is dependent on the quality of the paper as well as the type of print medium. I do not know if others have experienced this but the quality of copier/printer paper now available to us exhibits noticeably inferior stability when wetted from paper of the same weight from the same brand-name supplier obtained as recently as four years ago. I can attest to that because I have compared the two. Increasing the paper weight improves wetted stability only marginally and certainly not the the level exhibited in the older paper stock. And this is so-called 'premium' stuff I am writing about.
I suspect the increasing use of recycled, and therefore shortened fibre, in production of modern papers has something to do with this.