Re: Ink vs. Laser - professional advise is needed

I think that what's significant about what both Burt and I have written is that Burt and I are both fans of the inkjet process. I'm actually using an inkjet printer almost exclusively right now. Yet, when I next have a large document to work on, that will be done on my Oki LED printer (which is a laser printer except for the way that the image is generated on the drum). An interesting advantage, too, of the laser printers is that it's less touchy about paper quality for the image. You don't want to use paper that's so junky that it cruds up the printer's insides with paper dust and scratches the delicate drum surface. But you can print very nicely on ordinary 20-pound copy paper of decent quality.

For my inkjet printer, however, I'm using 24-pound, genuine "HP" brand (Hammermill, actually) inkjet paper; there are a lot of reasons for this, inluding the fact that I'm duplex-printing. But for churning out lots of pages for working on, the LED/laser machine is the way to go.

So, here's the interesting thing: the laser printer is the best choice for both intermittant short jobs and intense, long runs. The inkjet falls in between. How about that?
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