Are inkjet printer or laser printer economical?

Question

I was wondering which kind of printer is less expensive to use?

Answer 1

This is a difficult question to answer, and depends on several factors such as:
What is your expected printing volume per month?
What will you print - black text, mixed text and graphics, photo's?
In general, for printing black only laser printers are more economical.  Like inkjet printers, laser printers have a wide range of cartridge sizes and costs per page.  For both inkjet and laser printers the lower cost printers typically have lower capacity cartridges and higher costs per page compared to the higher end models.  Some higher end inkjet models such as the Business Inkjet Pro models have lower cost per page than the low end lasers. Higher end inkjet models tend to be more efficient when printing larger runs, less efficient when printing a page here and a page there. 
There are few resources that may help: HP's pageyield site lists the page yield per cartridge of recent printer models.  Note that many inkjet models have standard and "XL" cartridges.  The latter have generally better cost per page, they may give 3x the pages at 2x the price.  Some laser models have similar offerings.   There is also a guided site here that will ask various questions about your printing needs and then suggest suitable HP  printer models.
Bob Headrick,  HP Expert
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