Are you planning to buy a printer? Are you hesitating about what type of printer to buy? If you want to buy an ink jet printer, it is cheap, but it has many disadvantages; if you want to buy a laser printer, the price is too expensive, but it has many advantages. So which one is better? This is a problem that many customers have to consider and analyze before purchasing.

 If you are struggling with which printer to buy, it is not possible to compare the two before making a decision. What are the comparisons? Please take a look with Foshan Laser:

 1. Initial cost 

 Ink inkjet printer: The one-time purchase price is lower, and the later use cost is higher (for example: ink consumables are a long-term use cost, frequent failures, repair costs and maintenance costs are not cheap). 

 Laser coding machine: the one-time purchase price is higher, and its later use cost is lower.

 2. Operating costs

 Ink inkjet printer: The inkjet printer consumes a lot of special inks and solvents, and the consumption of consumables is large. In addition, the replacement of nozzles and other accessories is costly, requires specialized maintenance personnel, and will stop production unplanned, causing indirect losses. The cost of consumables for an inkjet printer is tens of thousands of yuan per year, or even hundreds of thousands of yuan.

 Laser coding machine: The operating cost is extremely low, the equipment can be maintained and operated for a long time without any consumables, and the operating cost is zero.

 3. Labor cost

 Ink jet coding: Ink jet printers have many processes, need to add ink constantly, and the nozzles must be cleaned frequently for maintenance. The storage of consumables is limited, requiring multiple personnel to operate.

 Laser coding: It can realize automatic online flying marking and reduce the process; and the development speed is fast, the marking can be continuously replaced, the storage capacity is large, the failure of the laser coding machine produced by Fulan Laser is almost negligible, and no special Maintenance personnel. Because the equipment produced by Foshan Fulan Laser Technology Co., Ltd. from raw material procurement to elaborate installation, from product development, design, production, packaging, transportation to distribution, professional Fulan laser members strictly monitor each production link and strictly control Product quality, through continuous sampling, testing, tracking and other measures to ensure that the product achieves excellent performance goals.

 4. Running time

 Ink inkjet printing: ink inkjet printers are affected by changes in the working environment, temperature and humidity, and are prone to block the ink path and nozzles. The failure rate is high and the service life of the equipment is short.

 Laser coding: 24 hours stable and continuous production. The laser marking machines produced by Foshan Fulan Laser Technology Co., Ltd. are classified according to lasers. There are fiber laser marking machines (the service life can be up to about 10W hours), green laser marking machines (available for 2 to 5 years) , UV laser marking machine (available for 3 to 10 years), oxygen dioxide laser marking machine (laser metal tube can be used for 5 to 10 years, glass tube can be used for 3 to 9 months) and MOPA laser marking Machine (can be used for 15-20 years). The laser service life has expired. Replace the laser with a new one and the laser marking machine can continue to be used.

5. Marking speed

Ink coding: manual or mechanical operation can be used to achieve one or more lines of character marking, the relative speed is slow, and only online coding can be used.

Laser coding: using computer integrated intelligent operation, it can realize automatic feeding, automatic identification and positioning, automatic marking, etc. The marking speed is super fast; it can work statically and under high-speed flow of the production line.

6. Marking effect

Ink spray coding: the logo is clear but the precision is low, it can be altered, it will fade after a long time or touch, and the anti-counterfeiting effect is limited.

Laser coding: The mark is super clear, high precision, unalterable, permanent, and has excellent anti-counterfeiting effect.

7. Flexibility

Laser coding machine: any content can be printed, and the printed content can be edited and modified immediately. The serial number, batch number, barcode, two-dimensional code, etc. can be automatically skipped. The number of print lines and font size are not limited.

Ink inkjet printer: can print barcodes, batch numbers and simple patterns, etc., the number of print lines and font size are limited.

8. Stability

Laser coding machine: stable and reliable performance, can work continuously 24 hours a day. Maintenance-free time is more than 20,000 hours.

Ink inkjet printer: The performance is basically stable, but the failure rate is relatively high. The nozzle will be blocked due to changes in ambient temperature, humidity and dust. The maintenance workload is large, and it is greatly affected by the environment.

9. Data processing capability

Laser coding machine: The control host directly uses the industrial control computer, which has powerful data processing capabilities and can be connected to all anti-counterfeiting data systems to meet multi-level anti-counterfeiting requirements.

Ink inkjet printer: Single-chip microcomputer control, limited data processing capabilities, and few anti-counterfeiting functions.

10. Operation and use 

Laser coding machine: Intuitive window software, with high display interface resolution and clear picture. Make printing information creation and editing convenient and fast.

Ink inkjet printer: simple display interface and low resolution. It can only perform simple editing processing on the printing information, and is generally used as a production date printing device.

11. Environmental protection and safety 

Laser coding machine: It does not produce any harmful substances to the environment and human body, and produces surface scratches on the objects to be printed. It is an environmentally friendly high-tech product. Comply with GB7247-87; GB10320-88 standard. However, some materials will produce smoke when laser marking, which can generally be treated with a smoke exhaust system.

Ink inkjet printer: Ink and solvent are highly volatile substances, which will produce more chemical toxic residues and pollute the environment. In addition, the chemical composition and odor of ink and solvent are likely to penetrate into the marked object, which is a gradual replacement product in the world.

After understanding the above 11 comparisons, I believe you will no longer struggle with which type to buy when you choose a printer. The saying is good: for every penny you pay, the enterprise must survive, product quality and after-sales service It is the foundation of enterprise survival.