| Pardon the rage, but this blog is simply a rant masquerading as technical opinion. Laser printers do NOT have better quality to a comparable inkjet printer. This is what happens when individuals with expertise in a specialized area (such as programming), think that gives them some right to pass off opinion as fact in other fields, such as printing economics or procurement. For those curious about the details, the industry has been more or less disrupted with the new generation of tank printers. Epson and HP even have begun offering printers with massive ink tanks that bring down the cost of prints to much lower than a US cent. You can do even better than that with bulk buys or sourcing the ink from discount stores, better sources than open retail. Also, you “absolutely don’t” need to print every page in color, but it makes it a whole lot better if you do. Once you’re used to the difference in quality, there’s very little else that will feel as good. This is personal preference of course and if your requirements at present are only black and white documents, those will look a lot better with the higher dpi prints too. There’s another thing to be said about titles such as “no good reason to ever do x” ; Just because one person in a narrow minded existence sees no reason to, that doesn’t mean there’s never a good reason to. This toxic BS is what makes the tech industry so hard to have constructive conversations in. |
Your mention of tank printers is helpful but given his article is from 2016 the trend may not have been so obvious back then as it is now (to you; I don't bother following the printer market).