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. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3