Choosing an Energy Efficient Printer
Whenever you choose an appliance for your home, it is very important that you carefully make the decision of which one to purchase as it can affect many things within your home. One of the most noticeable things that your appliances will affect is your energy bill.
Your energy bill can be significantly decreased if you choose appliances that are rated to be energy efficient. Most of the time, energy efficiency is denoted by an Energy star sticker somewhere on the appliance.
While one item make lack energy efficiency and not affect your energy bill very much, your energy bill will definitely be much higher if none of your appliances are energy efficient. Besides, there are many other benefits of energy efficient appliances that are not money related.
Even small things, such as printers, should be energy efficient. This is one of the first things you will want to look for when you are choosing a printer.
Printing from home can be expensive enough without it adding significantly to your energy bill. Two of the most common types of printers are inkjet printers and color laser printers.
Many people purchase inkjet machines for their first home printer. This is usually because they are priced lower.
However, the coveted printer is often the laser printer. There are many myths that have made the laser printer more desirable than the inkjet printers.
The first myth that is not true is that laser printers are always faster than inkjet printers. While lasers are much faster for high design documents that are very complicated with a lot of photos and graphs, they are not any faster on simple documents that are usually printed at home.
This is because the laser can cover the entire page in the same amount of time, no matter how complicated it is. However, an inkjet’s speed does depend on the complexity of the page.
The more complex the page, the slower it will go. This is what has led to the myth that inkjets are always slower than laser printers.
They are only slower than laser printers sometimes. Inkjets have a wide range of speeds, some of which can be faster than a laser printer as well.
It can print something off in anything from 20 ppm to a couple minutes per photo. The amount of time that a printer takes to print something can significantly affect how much energy it uses.
The second myth that is also false is that laser printers can produce a cost per page that is always less in cost than inkjets. This is also false because the inkjet printers have improved throughout the years.
It may have been true initially that laser printers always printed with a lower cost per page. However, inkjets soon improved their cost per page by incorporating several ink tanks into their design.
Today, the cost per page of printing on either type of printer is about the same depending on the specific model of each that you choose to purchase. Of course, the cost of energy per printer is not included in this estimate either.
The third myth that is false is that inkjet prints always produce better quality prints. It is usually true that inkjet printers usually produce higher quality photos because the ink is designed to print photos and because the printers are designed to use coated paper.
This coated paper is specifically designed for photos to be printed on it. The combination of ink and paper are what allow inkjet printers to produce higher quality photos.
Lasers can match this quality by improving their paper and ink as well, which they have been working on. Many laser printers can produce the same high quality today.
The fourth myth that is not true is that inkjets have a longer life span. Laser printers have more parts, which causes them to break more often.
Many people simply throw out a machine when it does not work anymore. However, if parts are replaced lasers can last as long as inkjets.
This is usually a good idea if your laser is old as their quality tends to decrease over time. There is some merit to this myth, but laser printers can last just as long or longer than ink jet printers.
The fifth myth concerning these printers is that color laser printers are bulkier. This myth is true because laser printers have more parts and they have put those parts somewhere.
The extra parts make the laser printer design much larger. Designers are working on the reducing the size, and the size has been reduced significantly throughout the past decade.
Terry Daniels is a former electrical engineer and has written hundreds of articles relating to air conditioning and heating, including outdoor infrared heater. He has been involved in the air conditioning and heating business for over 16 years.
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