What are 4 basic criteria in evaluating a printer?

[Starkler]

Question is in the title. What are 4 basic criteria in evaluating a printer?

[Oisterman]

What?

I'm gonna guess 1 is how much ink it uses/takes and how much the cartridges cost to refill.

Edit: Lawl, your Yahoo Answers name is "Bewb"?

[Starkler]

What?

I'm gonna guess 1 is how much ink it uses/takes and how much the cartridges cost to refill.

Edit: Lawl, your Yahoo Answers name is "Bewb"?

Idk, I don't even understand the question.

and what?

[Oisterman]

Lol I dunno. I saw this on yahoo answers >_<

[Starkler]

Oh, lol.
Any answers there? I'm confused.

EDIT; My post count. :O I've been seeing that number a lot lately.. Hm.

[Oisterman]

Yep

1. Price of consumables (cartridges, maintenance costs)
2. Purpose - is it for high end graphic work requiring glossy artistic output?
3. How many pages print per minute (Is speed of output required?)
4. Functionality - is an all in one (scanner, copier, printer) requred? or is it simply colour over black and white?
5. Networked or shared? Printers can be networked with ethernet for more than one computer to share the printer.... good for a small+ business. Some printers are wireless and can be shared in a home or office with a router to share in printing.

numbers 2-5 are most important to me in an office or shared environment