9 Questions To Ask Before Buying A Printer
In the market for a new printer? With all the options and features, picking the right printer (for you) can be difficult. Here are 9 questions you should ask before buying your new printer. Hopefully they will help you find just the printer you need.
Question #1 – What category of printer do you need?
There are three categories of printers, with a few options in each category. They are:
1) General Purpose or Special Purpose – The vast majority of printers on the market are general purpose (they are good for doing a little bit of everything). Special purpose printers are designed to do specific things (photo printing, document printing, label printing). Figure out what purpose you need your printer to serve.
2) Home Use or Office Use – Where will you be using your printer? Home use printers are more likely to print photos. Office users will focus on printing text. Maybe you are a home office user. If so, get a multifunction printer.
3) Laser Printer or Inkjet Printer -
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I find this unhelpful. It’s kinda what a basic stupid printer salesman would do. It’s not a “tip” per-se.
Any person who does anything more than colour printing once in a blue moon should look at a colour laser. The $$ don’t add up to get an inkjet, where the cartriges are hideously overpriced to subsidise the printer. A person with a serious home office needs to look at a colour LASER multifunction, not one of those rubbish $150 jobbies with inkjet. They are slow, expensive, and uneconomical.
I have bought 5 or 6 multi-function printers over the past few years. After 8 or 9 months, the printer needs cleaning. But it costs more to have the printer cleaned than it does to buy a new printer. If you use generic ink, the process is accelerated. Some printers “know” when you install a generic cartridge so you must buy the higher priced OEM cartridges which have very little ink them. My husband’s laser printer has cranked out thousands of pages compared to my 5 or 6 mf printers that won’t even print a decent photo. The drawback is that laser color printers are way too expensive for simple home use. The printers that have separate cartridges for each color is the cheapest to operate in my opinion. That way if you use more yellow, or magenta you can just replace that cartridge. With the all-in-one color cartridges, you are probably throwing away much of the other colors unused.