Laser Color Printer

A laser color printer can have many advantages to a small business.

A laser color printer can save money in use over the common inkjet printer. They are much more cost efficient over inkjet printers for those daily business needs like reports.

A few years ago, a laser color printer was affordable only to large corporations, specialty shops and printers, and overly funded government institutions.

Laser color printers and copiers used to start at about $10,000 and costs went up from there, with most laser color printers and copiers costing over $20,000. When we had a laser color copier at our business I was shocked to discover nearly every school in the area had one. Teachers still came to our business because no one knew how to use them and they were often not working.

Today, you can buy a small laser color printer for less than $300.

They are better quality, faster, and easier to use then the laser color printers that used to cost $10,000. They are much easier to perform maintenance on the older laser color printers also. Most parts just slide out to be replaced by just sliding in the replacement part. Color laser toner cartridges are available at local office supply stores for many of the popular laser color printers. You can save money ordering parts and a laser toner cartridge online.

A laser color printer will usually print text sharper than an inkjet printer.

This alone makes the color laser printer a much better choice for a business, where text is the primary subject for printing. While an inkjet printer will still print photographs much better than a laser color printer will, the quality of photos from the latest color laser printer will surprise you. The newer laser color printer models produce magazine quality photos if not photo quality.

Because a laser color printer will use laser toner cartridges instead of ink cartridges, it will cost much less to use than in inkjet printer.

While individual laser toner cartridges are much more expensive than an inkjet cartridge, you will be able to print many more pages. Most laser color printers use 4 laser toner cartridges: yellow, magenta, cyan, and black. Usually, there are high capacity laser toner cartridges available at least for the black color. These high capacity cartridges are more economical than the standard capacity ones. You can tell your laser color printer to print just using the black color for high speed printing and further cost savings.

A laser color printer is perfect for small runs of brochures where you do not need the large number of copies it would take to make it cost effective at a commercial printer.

You will find the quality from your laser color printer to be very good for this type of printing job. You can combine a form letter and mailing list and print a custom brochure or color letter, personalized for each client. Imagine how impressed your clients would be to receive a color brochure, personalized just for them. Not something you could do easily working with a commercial printer.

Now that laser color printers are affordable, it may make sense to purchase one for you small business.

They have many advantages over inkjet printers especially in a small business setting. You will probably be looking at laser color printers from Konica-Minolta, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Canon, or Xerox. Make sure to check the prices on laser toner cartridges when you compare models.