I usually buy a bubblejet as they are the cheapest.


No, no, a thousand timesl NO.

What you pay for the printer itself is almost irrelevant. The expense you must consider is your cost per copy.

Some "inexpensive" ink jet printers will have a cost per copy in excess of 10 cents per page. A $99 printer will will cost you more for the ink than you paid for the printer before you've used your second ream of paper.

By contrast, the Kyocera printer I use at work (and I have one at home as well) prints at a cost of less than 1/4 cent per page. (CPP figures exclude cost of the paper). We paid a fair chunk of change for the printer at work, but it is saving us more than $2,000 per year in consumables, compared to what even a reasonably efficient HP laser printer (2.5 cents per page) would cost us. In the time we've had it, the printer has saved us at least six times what we paid for it. It has been nearly as reliable as an anvil (about all we've had to do is replace a registration clutch) and is completely user serviceable without tools due to its modular construction.

Pay little attention to the up-front cost of purchasing the printer. Watch your operating costs instead, because that is where the vast majority of your printing money goes.

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