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. Just my 2c. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++