Hart Nat Hentoff David Horowitz Arianna Huffington Marianne Jennings Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch. Although usually slower than laser printers, inkjets outsell them by seven to one, primarily because inkjets handle color deftly.
Laser printers use a toner cartridge and drum, the same kind that photocopiers use.
Inkjets use droplets of ink to form letters and graphics. Lately, both the size of the droplets and the price of the printers have been shrinking. On some printers they're less than 0.001 inch in diameter, which is useful for fine detail and shading. We recently tested a bevy of inkjet printers, from the Apollo and other budget models to printers targeted to digital-photo hobbyists. In our main tests, a panel of experts judged the print quality of a single-spaced document containing various faces, sizes and styles of type.