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today we're going to help you buy a new printer the first thing to decide is whether you want an inkjet printer or a laser printer and we're going to tell you the key differences between these two technologies as fast as possible if you don't know what kind of printer you have or it came with your computer or something like that the odds are good you have an inkjet printer one of the advantages of them is they're extremely inexpensive for the printer hardware up front they have some other advantages as well though they're very compact they don't use much power compared to their laser counterparts and they are extremely versatile you can print to a variety of media such as labels without ruining the sticker backs because there's no heat involved in the printing process and because the vast majority of inkjet printers out there do print in color you can get reasonably good photos out of pretty much any inkjet printer these days laser printers are more expensive in the short term you have to pay more for the hardware particularly if you want a color model but they do tend to be more reliable so they'll last longer and if you use them very infrequently they don't have nozzles that can clog unlike their inkjet counterparts they also produce very crisp text if you're printing out resumes printed on laser even the cheapest laser printer from ten years ago will print crisper text than the most high-end inkjet printer today last but not least you'll save on toner in the long run because toner with a couple of very few exceptions is cheaper than ink for refills so it boils down to this if you're going to be printing a lot of text get yourself a laser printer it'll look much more crisp it's way more professional and you'll actually save money in the long run if you do enough printing if you're going to be printing photos and more often than just sort of once a month or once every two months because then you risk having your nozzles clogged then an inexpensive inkjet printer is not a bad idea compared to entry-level color laser printers an entry-level color inkjet printer is much less expensive and will produce much better results on a wider variety of different types of paper thanks for checking out this episode of fast as possible make sure you subscribe to tech quickie and also like the video it helps us out a lot share this video with anyone who you think would benefit from it including embedding it on your website consider this my go ahead - well go ahead also if you can think of any other fast as possible episodes that you like to see click the link in the description to post in the forum thread we will monitor that and we will make sure that we check it out again thanks for watching and see you next time