The A Series is designed to be affordable. It is ideal for homes and most home offices. Even though the ink tank and laser printers are the same price, the laser will last longer with their cartridge. Based on a per sheet cost, lasers are about 2¢ per page, and ink tanks are about 5¢ per page.
Paper Tray
The A Series printer will have all of the standard features that is found in the printers page. In addition, there is another relevant feature. That is the paper tray with a priority feeder. As for the priority feeder, the front of the printer will have a tray that fold out about 45° and you will slide papers, or envelopes. You would then print the file you would need to print. Keep in mind that the priority feed paper will always be used before the paper tray. If you are writing letters, you might put envelopes in the priority feeder, and print all of the your envelopes. However, as long as the tray is open, the printer will look to use any paper in the paper tray. If there is no paper left in the paper tray, the printer will use the paper in the regular paper tray.
The priority paper tray can support 25 sheets of paper, or 5 US Size 10 envelopes. The main paper tray holds 100 sheets of paper or 20 envelopes. This should be suffient for most home or SOHO environments. This is ideal for a family, and will meet the needs for such small volume of prints.