"Laser printers are still the best option for primarily text and straight lines. They have a cleaner, crisper look to documents without as many gradients and little details. I suspect this won't be as important for most home printers, where variety and image quality matter more than perfect serifs. Where color laser printers I tested ran about three or four seconds per page in black and white, the EcoTank was more like six per page, right in line with full color ink cartridge printers."
"When printing wirelessly, there's sometimes a substantial delay of 30-45 seconds between hitting the print button and the printer actually starting up. This is my biggest complaint about the EcoTank, and even printing multiple times a day, I often wonder if I sent the command to the wrong printer, or if it needs my attention about something before it can start, only for it to start whirring shortly after."
Laser printers produce cleaner, crisper text and straight lines with less gradient detail, making them ideal for primarily text documents. Color laser printers printed about three to four seconds per black-and-white page in tests, while the EcoTank printed about six seconds per page, comparable to full-color ink cartridge printers. Small paper tray capacity makes long print jobs tedious when printing 50–100 pages. Wireless printing can incur substantial 30–45 second delays before startup. Printer manufacturers increasingly lock cartridges with chips and QR codes, raising costs. Ink-tank systems allow visible refillable tanks and avoid forced proprietary consumables.
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