Laser vs Inkjet, why spend more?
—– An inkjet printer uses a water-based ink to create the text and images on paper. The print head writes to the paper, and as it feeds out of the machine it’s dried by the air. This is okay for most faxes, home printing, and other things like that. However, when you start printing resumes, financial records, business documents, or anything you want to last a long time, the weaknesses of inkjet printing come to the surface. If you spill drops of water on the page or get any moisture at all on the ink, it will smudge and smear. Laser printers work with a dry toner which is mixed with a magnetic “piggyback” material and is housed in the replacable toner cartridge. When a print is started, the toner is magnetically charged and applied to the paper using a combination of magnetism and the digital signal from the printer. The paper is then moved by rubber rollers through the fuser unit which houses a heating element. Using heat and the pressure of the rollers, this permanently fuses the
