Are Inkjet Printers Still A Good Investment for an Office?

The bell has tolled for inkjet printers - or so we’ve been told. Over the past year so,

there have been a series of warning signs that all may not be well in the kingdom of inkjet with Lexmark announcing they were quitting the inkjet printer market, Kodak doing the same soon after and a 12% decline in sales in the second quarter of 2012 being just three.

This decline in popularity of inkjet printers is no more pronounced than in offices, where black and white laser printers accompanied by a colour model for brochures and colour documents are more or less standard issues. Inkjets, while still arguably the number one choice for home consumers, seem to have lost their place in the hearts of business owners.

Why is this? Well, a common perception of inkjet printers is that they are unreliable, expensive to maintain and simply not as good at meeting the demands of the average office. Whereas a laser printer will be able to produce crisp text documents en masse in a relatively short space of time, an ink-hungry inkjet might print half well, the other half badly and suffer from a paper jam in between while also taking a huge chunk out of your office supplies budget.

Here at Cartridge World, however, we’re still quite fond of the trusty old inkjet and don’t think business owners should abandon them just yet. Here’s why!

A Versatile Range of Prints

If there’s one word to sum up inkjet printers, it’s versatility. While a laser printer might excel at producing word documents, an inkjet can more or less do it all; text documents, photos, imagery and much much more. While it’s not enough to simply hit print and expect the world’s highest quality prints to emerge from the other side, a well maintained inkjet with the right printer settings for each job (make sure to get your staff to amend them before printing!) will provide a reliable outlet for all kinds of printing job.

They Aren’t As Expensive As You Think...

Inkjet printers aren’t that expensive at all - at first. While you can pick an inkjet from a supermarket for as little as a frankly astonishing £20, the cost of running an inkjet printer soon mounts up when you account for all the ink cartridges you’re going to have to buy to keep the thing running. With a good deal of inkjet models demanding you change cartridge before the ink has even run low, it’s easy to see why many business owners opt for a laser printer instead.

As any regular visitor to Cartridge World will tell you, however, it doesn’t have to be this way. Remanufactured and compatible ink cartridges provide a just-as-effective ink solution for a fraction of the cost. What’s more, you can arrange to have your old cartridges collected and refilled from your office by Cartridge World. Saving money without even leaving the office? Sounds good to us!

Easy-to-Maintain and Simple

The technology behind an inkjet printer is relatively simple; droplets of ink are propelled onto a single page in order to replicate a physical copy of a digital text document or image. This is reflected in the build of the average inkjet, which features few parts. This means that an inkjet is less likely to break completely and makes fixing paper jams and cartridges issues easy, giving you time to get on with your work rather than repairing your printer!

Although inkjet printers won’t be for everyone - a laser printer will be far more suited to dealing with the demands of a large office, for example - they do still represent a viable option for many small-to-medium businesses looking for a simple but versatile printer to suit their needs.