Friday, January 22, 2010

Low Cost Prints For Home Schooling Made Possible With Lexmark Laser Printers And Lexmark Printer Toner

By Adriana Noton

Teaching a child or children at home requires a large number of prints on a daily basis. Most people find that the most economical way to prepare those prints is through use of a laser printer. While you may have a higher initial outlay and toner may cost more to replace than ink cartridges, in the end you save money as the toner produces several times as many prints as the ink jet cartridge. Remember the you need to match name brand and model number of the printer to the toner, thus a Lexmark printer needs Lexmark printer toner.

Most ink cartridges are designed to produce less than one thousand copies per cartridge. Laser toner is designed to print several thousand copies with each cartridge. Thus, instead of having to replace a cartridge every two weeks, it may be two to three months or longer between replacements. Thus, although the initial outlay is more, in the end, prints cost far less.

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 at a later date your child begins to attend public or private school or enrolls in online courses they will appreciate the quality quick prints that are available using the printer. Once again, their water proof character makes them an excellent choice for smudge free papers that can take the moisture of a sudden downpour when waiting for bus or walking to school.

At the college level, the speed of the printer is most appreciated. Whether printing a research paper, resource materials or a syllabus, the printer allows the student to complete his task in the least amount of time.

Always have a spare Lexmark printer toner cartridge at hand so you can print continually. Then you can keep your home schooled child with plenty of learning activities sot that they can make the most of every learning activity.

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