Ink Tank vs Laser

The mobile printer is inkjet only. All other printer series will come in Ink Tank, and Laser. There will be a couple of differences between ink tank, and laser that might be important. I will try to provide the information here on this page. If you know more than I do, please let me know any more differences I didn’t think of.

Cost

While the printers will be the same whether you choose ink take vs laser, the cartridges for lasers will be more espensive, although they can print out many more sheets as well. This means a larger up front cost, but a cheaper per page cost. A toner cartridge will be about $125 for most of the colors, and $175 for black since there will be more black toner in a larger cartridge. Senitrus computers will be producing the lasers with the same cartridges so there is no mistake,

Ink is much cheaper for that initial cost. The colors are $20 for the bottles, and the black is about $30 for the bottle. When buying ink from Senitrus, you would get pigment ink which doesn’t smudge as easily.

Professionalism

Ink smudges when wet. It is just a fact of life. Since the image on a laser page is essentially being burned into the page, there is no smudging, and a wet laser printer page will come out ahead when compared to a wet ink page. For some people, this might be worth the extra cost in cartridges.

Frequency

The print heads of ink tank printers can dry out if not used regularly. These printer heads will have to be replaced which of course can cost a lot of money. If you are not using the printer every couple of days, you might be best with a laser.