I was never tempted to get on the inkjet bandwagon. I've been using laser printers since they were close to $2000 (my most recent purchase was about $40, after rebate). Admittedly, I do mostly monochrome, but the prospect of fighting with clogged cartridges and runny prints, and paying a fortune to do so, never caught my interest. Right now, the stable here consists of a Brother monochrome laser for the high-volume stuff, a small Samsung laser for printing checks, and a neat little Canon Selphy dye-sublimation printer ($50 A/R) for making 4x6 photos when I'm in a hurry (about 25 cents each if you shop the supplies, and the dye-sub cartridges never dry out). If I want lots of photos and don't need immediate gratification, I'll put the files on a memory stick and stop by the local drug store; they're about 18 cents there.) We've got an HP inkjet attached to my wife's PC, but it rarely gets turned on. Why bother, really.
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