At one time, quite a while back, inkjet printers were homely, noisy machines that often required a lot of patience to put up with their overall poor print quality and lack of dependability. After that, they evolved into decent, fairly dependable machines capable of printing quality documents and photographs, but they were still, when compared to their laser counterparts, a bit too expensive to use, in terms of their per-page cost of consumables—in this case, ink.
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