two questions about printers in general

[Pyromidion]

im running right now with an HP 672c and am currently looking for an upgrade

question 1: does bumping the res higher use more ink? (inkjet) this may seem an obvious yes, but since the ink is filling the same amount of space, it made me wonder if there was some sort of trade-off somewhere.

question 2: ive heard that laser printers cost less to actually maintain. how much difference would that be (middle of the line 600-1200 dpi laser vs a 1200x1200 inkjet) in the long run assuming i just print documents (100-200/month) and the occasional photo (B/W or Color). with the low page count and the photos, would it be effective just to go with inkjet?

i saw the lexmark x1150 and it looks nice.

-john

 

[Peter]

Lasers don't do color, at least not the cheap ones.
If your concern is print cost, replace the HP with a "single ink" Canon.

 

[sathyan]

I recently did a comparison between the Samsung 1710 laser and HP 940 inkjet. For monochrome text documents, the laser was 2.6 cents versus 6 cents a page in ink. The break even point was at 3800 pages so we bought it but kept the inkjet for the occasional photo. You can calculate whether this makes sense for you.

Yes, higher quality (best, normal, draft) uses more ink. Quoted calculations use 5% coverage - that's a text document. A good quality 8x10 color photo will run closer to $1.

 

[TheCorm]

I reckon that a single page of 1200 x 1200 dpi printing on a higher model printer would use less ink than 2 pages of 600 x 600 dpi printing on a lower model printer...