Persons producing a large number of prints daily, such as home schooling parents, find that laser printers offer a faster and less costly way to make those prints that does an ink jet printer. The initial cost of your printer as well as of the toner cartridges may be more, however prints are less expensive. Each printer manufacturer produces their own brand of toner cartridge that is to be used in their machine. Thus Lexmark printers use Lexmark printer toner. In addition, there may be several different models of toner cartridges and your machine may need a specific one.

Homeschooling parents often need to make a large number of prints every day. With an ink jet printer it is easy to work your way through a print cartridge in as little as two weeks with all the worksheets, research and reading material that must be printed. At the price for these cartridges, this is not an effective way to produce the quantity of prints that are needed.

Ink jet printers are much slower than laser ones. Thus, when producing a large number of prints, with the former, you find yourself waiting for the printer to finish its task.

If cost is a concern, many of the black and white laser printers have dropped in cost so that the initial investment is about the same as a color ink jet printer. You might consider purchase of one of these printers while keeping the jet printer for color prints.

One quality of the laser printer that you will appreciate is that the heat fused toner does not run when wet like ink from an ink jet printer does. This means that you can use the coloring pages that you printed for water coloring. If cooking is a part of your curriculum, then your students can use recipes that have been printed without worry of the print running from little spills. You can even use these prints as iron on transfers for t-shirts that the students color in using permanent or laundry markers for a craft project. Printer toner may be expensive, but can print a lot.

When using toner cartridges, you can also teach environmental responsibility. Most toner manufacturers offer recycling programs. Lexmark toner cartridges may be recycled. Address labels can be printed from the Lexmark website and the cartridges shipped back to the manufacturer for recycling.

If your child attends another school later in life, he will appreciate that he is able to get quick quality prints by using the same printer. Since the prints are waterproof, a project that the child has spent several weeks in producing will not be ruined if he is caught in a cloud burst, either walking to school or waiting for the school bus.

At the college level, the printer offers speed. No matter what the student is printing, there will not be a lot of waiting around for prints to shoot out of the printer. They are always high quality so that term paper will look great when turned into the professor.

Always keep spare Lexmark printer toner on hand to avoid having to interrupt your project to get more toner.

Are you looking for cheap quality ink? No name brands too risky for you? Then perhaps it will be smart to buy Lexmark ink and Brother ink from a reputable online retailer.