Comments on: Buying Printers for Small Business

By: Inks and Toners

Inks and Toners — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:29:58 +0000

Printer supplies are very vital when buying a printer for small home office because it is an ongoing expense. So when you are making buying decision, you should consider the price of the ink and toner cartridges.

By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:56:26 +0000

Actually you can get into a nice, small capacity color laser for around $299 from a major vendor. I just happened to be pricing several of these out for someone today. The cost is way down from what it was previously but is still a bit higher than the printing cost of a monochrome printer. Even cutting just $.02/page would be a 10% cost savings in the toner which is the biggest expense.

It really depends on volumes and usage. Color lasers definitely beat color ink jet in cost most of the time.

I did not mean to imply that color lasers were of great expense – only that most small businesses do not need color printing for the bulk of their printing needs and so any extra expense may not be justified.

By: Ryan N.

Ryan N. — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:46:25 +0000

A decent article, particularly for those that don’t “get it” (this happens to be one of my areas of responsibility in my office, incidentally)… but I do beg to differ on color laser printing. At this point, you can buy a color laser printer for less than $1000, and the output costs less than $0.20/page. It won’t be a great printer, but it’s not a major expense.