[bityard]

Sounds like you're talking about ink printers, TFA is about laser printers.

Laser printers are far more cost-effective than ink printers, and there are even color laser printers with very decent color quality for everything except photos. (Ink printers are better for photos but even I think those look terrible compared to professionally-developed photos.)

[hathawsh]

Agreed. I've had the same HP color laser printer for over a decade and it's still working well. I've only had to replace the toner cartridges once or twice. Before that, I went through at least 3 inkjet printers that all failed because the ink dried out.

BTW, a cool modern hack is converting a document to high-res image files and then submitting the images to the Walmart photo printing service or similar. The document will look incredible.