Because they’ve become kinda the standard and people don’t know any better; I may be wrong, but for the average user there’s the ‘printer’ which uses ink, and thern there’s the copier which uses toner.
About them “always been kind of awful”… I dunno, looking back it was harder for them to clog, they were cheap and simple; then they started the race to the smallest nozzles, realized they could upcharge the ink 1000x… and here we are.
Well, my laser printer jammed once in >10 years of ownership, and it’s because the paper was loaded weird. My parents’ inkjet jammed all the time as a kid, so much so that we ended up replacing it with another when my mom started working from home, and it still sometimes jammed.
Maybe things got way better since I was a kid, but inkjets always kinda sucked.
That’s just a problem of the feeding mechanism. Laser can do that just as much. It may just be dirty, something may be broken, or it was just terribly designed.
Because they’ve become kinda the standard and people don’t know any better; I may be wrong, but for the average user there’s the ‘printer’ which uses ink, and thern there’s the copier which uses toner. About them “always been kind of awful”… I dunno, looking back it was harder for them to clog, they were cheap and simple; then they started the race to the smallest nozzles, realized they could upcharge the ink 1000x… and here we are.
Well, my laser printer jammed once in >10 years of ownership, and it’s because the paper was loaded weird. My parents’ inkjet jammed all the time as a kid, so much so that we ended up replacing it with another when my mom started working from home, and it still sometimes jammed.
Maybe things got way better since I was a kid, but inkjets always kinda sucked.
That’s just a problem of the feeding mechanism. Laser can do that just as much. It may just be dirty, something may be broken, or it was just terribly designed.