As the second reason, I'd like to focus on waste of energy. Think about it, 50 lasers printers firing up everyday, heating and cooling all day long. It's gotta take it's toll on energy consumption. For those of you who are not aware of the laser engine technology, I'll make is real simple for you. Toner is needed to make a print, in most laser printers toner is housed in the print cartridge. Toner is fine plastic resin particles. In order for the toner to adhere to the paper it must be heated and fixed. All laser printers have a heat roller or heat belt that melts to toner. In order to have the printer print quickly most of these devices maintain a temperature threshold.
So, lets be bold and say we have 50 laser printers firing up and staying on all day wouldn't it be smarter to have 5 work group Multifunctional Copier Devices that could support every ones printing.
Gesh, what would it cost on energy to run let's say a certain "Q" color laser printer?
