This quantity is often called a 'duty cycle.' A professional
office
laser printer will have a very high duty cycle, will be designed to
print many thousands of copies each month, maybe 50.000 copies or more.
By contrast, a home laser printer might have a duty cycle of only 2000
copies per month.
In the long term, the toner cartridges for professional office laser printers are far more economical than toner cartridges for home laser printers.
In the short term, they cost far more than the toner cartridges for home printers.
The fact that professional office laser printers are
preferable in
the long term to home laser printers doesn't mean that they are
essential for desktop publishing.
It's quite possible to publish a publication on a home laser printer,
as long as you are aware that in the long term it
is not as economical as publishing it on a professional office laser
printer.
In desktop publishing economics I stated that the economics of desktop publishing - whether it is profitable, can be divided into two parts: whether it is economical from a cost point of view and whether it is economical from a time point of view.
This article is dedicated to the cost point of view, it takes a look at the printers which are available for a desktop publishing system from a cost point of view. Revisit Publishing mostly publishes what might be called `nostalgia type publications.
The printer, if it used to publish the publications, is probably the most costly item in a desktop publishing system. It can be an ink jet printer or a laser printer but this post is dedicated to laser printers.
In the long term, it's more economical to buy a professional
office laser printer than a laser printer which is designed
for occasional use in the home.
They are more economical because they are more robust,
they are designed to print a large quantity of printed material each
month, they are likely to be very reliable.
Marketing libel
Marketing
a publication to a book store
Laser
printer options
A
general look at desktop
publishing
economics
Effect of
laser printer printing speed on desktop publishing (video)
Desktop
publishing and the work from home scenario
Desktop
publishing attitudes towards the work from home scenario
Desktop
publishing and investing time in laser printing