Laser printers have significant advantages over other types of printers. Unlike impact printers, laser printers can reproduce a mixture of text and graphics, including varied fonts and character sizes, and halftone images. Laser printers use toner, a black or colored powder, rather than liquid inks. Unlike thermal printers, whose images can be smeared if the paper comes in contact with a source of heat, laser printers do not require special paper. Advantages of laser printers over inkjet printers include higher resolution, no smearing, lower cost per page, and faster print speed, since the entire page is imaged at one time, while an inkjet typically prints a series of narrow strips. However, laser printers always produce raster images, and except in the highest-quality versions are less able to reproduce continuous tone images such as photographs. |
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A monochrome laser printer from Lexmark, the E321 is a high-performance printer with fast print times, high-quality output, and an affordable price tag. With its effective 1,200 dpi image quality, your prints are accurate and easy-to-read. Print speeds are as fast as 20 pages per minute, and the time-to-first-print is just 9.5 seconds, so your print jobs are done when you need them. Regular price: $269.99 Order for Only: $145.99 | | The hp LaserJet 1200 series for business people working in the home or office features fast, economical, internet-enabled monochrome printing plus networking (LJ 1200n) and print, copy and scan capabilities (LJ 1220) through parallel or USB ports. Regular price: $299.99 Order for Only: $149.99 |
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