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.

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 as it is for most people, you will be happy to find that black and white laser printers are now very competitive in price with ink jet printers. You may want to purchase a monochrome laser printer and keep your old 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.

Once you child reaches college level, he or she will appreciate the quick prints that are available for research. Whether printing a course syllabus or a research paper, the printer will not have the student waiting for long periods of time while prints are made.

Be sure to keep a spare Lexmark printer toner on hand so that you are never unable to make prints. - 29854

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