If you’re trying to choose a printer for home use, you’re probably considering buying inkjet printers or even network laser printers. There can be advantages to choosing both printers. However, you need to make an informed decision when buying. In this article, we hope to give you a more informed decision especially if you think you’ll need a network laser printer. In other words, this article is meant to discourage you from buying a network laser printer for your household. This is not to put down all laser printers. It is only a matter of saying that homes have different printing needs.
Network Laser Printers Are Bulky
One point of impracticality in buying a network laser printer for home use is that they are bulky. Compared to ordinary laser printers or compact inkjet printers, network laser printers have additional paper storage facilities that are meant to cater heavy printing jobs. Thus, some of them look like a whole machine on their own. Unless you have a whole room dedicated for printers like most offices do, you should stick with ordinary desktop printers, laser or otherwise.
Laser Printers Are Too Hot
That’s right. Laser printers are too hot for comfort because they use a heating component inside in order to do their printing process. If you plan on using your laser printer for quite a long time, you can expect the atmosphere around your printer to get very uncomfortable. However, if you do have some air conditioning, or perhaps a well ventilated room, it might be more tolerable.
Network Laser Printers Are Too Expensive
This is a very common fact. Compared to inkjet printers, laser printers are a lot more expensive. You can’t blame printer manufacturers for this kind of pricing. They are more expensive because they use more sophisticated components than inkjet printers do. Inkjet printers only have the precision components right at the print head. Laser printers on the other hand have the laser components, the photo-sensitive drums and, let’s not forget, the heating components. It only makes sense that they cost a lot more expensive because all these components are intended to make better prints than ordinary inkjet printers do. Add the capability to interface with a computer network and it’s another additional cost.
Health Effects
According to recent study, laser printers are capable of emitting ultrafine particles that may pose health hazards to individuals. If located in an enclosed space, they have the tendency to be breathed in and can cause respiratory diseases. According to researchers, chronically inhaling copying toner is qualitatively similar to inhaling titanium dioxide or diesel exhaust. Other researches claim that they are comparable to emissions from cigarette smoking.
Every bit of this article is bent on convincing you that a network laser printer’s place is not at your home. However, if you still want to get a network laser printer for your home because you’re convinced that you need it, then make sure to have your house well ventilated to allow the ultrafine particles to disperse so as not to cause any health hazards.
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