What kinds of ink cartridges are available?
Printers get their ink from either a toner/drum cartridge or an ink tank cartridge. With laser printers, which use a toner/drum, you’ll have to replace the cartridge when the printer runs out of ink. With ink jets, which use ink tanks, you must replace or refill the tanks when they run dry. Both of these types of cartridges vary in number of pages they’ll produce, although you’ll generally get more mileage from a laser cartridge. Some ink jets use a single four-color cartridge that includes black, and some use a tricolor cartridge and a separate black one, and still others use totally separate tanks for each color. If you plan to print a lot of text documents on your ink jet, you should look for a printer that offers a separate black ink tank.
