If color is important to you. Color charts, graphs photos and accent type can add a lot of snap to a presentation or report. You may be willing to trade a laser printer's slightly higher text quality for color capability. If you have kids. Kids love color printers, and graphics programs designed for youngsters will draw them to the computer and inspire them to use it.
Kids can go through a lot of expensive color ink cartridges in a big hurry.
You can still find 300 dpi laser printers, and they're OK for business correspondence, but you can get a 600 dpi printer for a few dollars more. They'll produce better text and amazingly sharp graphics. For home or occasional office use, a printer that can produce four pages per minute will work fine and cost less. Printing graphics depends more on the time it takes to produce the first page than how long it takes to provide additional copies of the same page. You'll have fewer paper alignment problems with a cassette.