Solid Ink
Fewer replaceable units. Less to throw away.
Think you’re done with a consumable when it needs to be replaced? Not with laser / LED devices.
When a laser printer runs out of toner, you are still left with big, bulky print cartridges that need to be
disposed. Not to mention other items such as fusers, fuser oil and imaging units.
Solid ink printers, on the other hand, utilize compact solid ink sticks with no casings. So when you run
out of ink, there’s nothing left to throw away.
The only other replaceable unit is a maintenance roller. This lasts for tens of thousands of pages, so it
only needs to be replaced a few times in the life of the printer.
The bottom line?
For every 100,000 printed pages, a solid ink printer generates approximately 5 lbs. of waste,
compared to approximately 157 lbs. for a typical color laser.
Move over print cartridges.
Here comes something leaner. Because solid ink
sticks are smaller than those cumbersome print
cartridges, they’re easy to store. And there’s less
packaging to recycle.
How Does Solid Ink Stack Up?
Color
Ink Type
Handling
Cost per page
Environmental Ease of Use
Technology
Cost
Solid Ink
Solid Sticks
Clean
Low
Low
Very Easy
Laser
Dry Toner
Can Spill
Low
High
Complex
Ink Jet
Liquid Can
Leak
Low
Medium
Easy
Dye Sublimation
Transfer
Roll
Clean
High
Medium/High
Easy
Landfill waste for every 100,000 pages
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Typical color laser printer
Solid Ink printer
