Printers have become a must-have computer peripheral in offices and homes. If you’re planning on buying one for yourself, you might be confused between the two most common forms of printers – Inkjet and Laser. Not many people are aware of the differences between the two printers in detail. All they know, that the printing quality differs in both the cases and that difference is hard to interpret. But when it comes to cost and quality, there’s actually a lot of difference between both types. So how would you make the final choice? In this article, we’ve weighed out some pros and cons of inkjet vs laser printers. This brief comparison will help you find out the best printer for you. read more

In this post, I look at the best places to buy ink for a printer. Printer ink can be expensive and I know plenty of people who spend hundreds of dollars each month on their ink. If you do a lot of printing, you could be wasting a lot of money. Deciding where you buy the ink can make a big difference in price and even quality. I want to share a few of the tips I personally use when buying ink to save myself a lot of money.

Buy Printer Ink Online

I personally buy printer ink cartridges online and I have been doing this for years. I find that online prices for ink are so much better than the brick and mortar stores around me. To go along with the prices always being cheaper, I can almost always find some type of coupon or deal to save me even more money. I find that the quality of this ink is also top-notch. I have never had any trouble with 123inkjets.com, Inkgrabber.com, or 4inkjets! and I would recommend any of them when you go to buy ink for your printer. read more

I received the question “Do Laser Printers use ink?” via email a few days back and figured I would deliver a quick answer via a blog post. The quick answer is that they do not use ink necessarily, but they use something similar called toner.

For laser printers, the ink toner comes in powdered form and can be found in the printer cartridge. The laser printer uses an electrostatic charge to make the toner stick to the paper in the areas where you want it to print, then rolls it over a heated drum to fuse the powdered toner to the surface. So, just like an ink printer would use ink, a laser printer uses this powdered toner. read more

The average person using Ink and toner interchangeably or even together like ink, without even realizing that the two are quite different. At a generic level, Ink cartridges run on inkjet printers and contain a liquid, while Toner cartridges run on laser printers and contain a powder. But it goes a bit further than that too, especially when you factor in the costs between these two.

Ink Cartridge

These cartridges are built with a sponge base on whichever colors are necessary to hold all the liquid ink found in them. They are solely used for inkjet printers, which are the most common type of printers found in a person’s home due to the cheap costs of both the printer and cartridges. Most ink cartridges run around 10-30 dollars each and last for around 200-1000 pages. They are always split into a color cartridge and then a black cartridge, however the color is able to print black. Ink cartridges also run off the use of a print head to deposit the ink in the appropriate places on the page. read more