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

[Starkler]

I can't say those are right but whatever.
Thanks Oister, I guess you deserve +rep even though you have enough already.

[Oisterman]

Lols, I just copy pastad from the other site. But thanks, you bumped me to 420

[SnOwBunZz]

Lols, I just copy pastad from the other site. But thanks, you bumped me to 420

I'd rep you for having 420 rep, but that'd ruin the moment. >_<

[$$$]

I'm very tempted to rep Oister... but I won't.

[Cloud13]

Quality of printing. There are a few other things I think about, mainly because my printer does them and I hate it for those.

Ink consumption. It seems to suck up ink. Or maybe it's that the different cartridges seem to run out almost continuously. And then whenever it's low, it refuses to print unless you push the OK button on the printer itself. With a wireless printer in a completely different room: very annoying.

Speed. Self explanatory.

My printer has made it self stupid and decided to print a blank page in between every page of actual content and print things in reverse order. Double paper usage, that I have to sort the still usable pages back in/runs out of paper, plus having to reverse printed documents: very annoying.