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Ever wonder what makes your printer so special? If it’s an inkjet printer, as opposed to a dot-matrix printer, daisywheel printer, or a laser printer, the answer is “many things”. Inkjet technology has existed in various forms for over a century, but the latter half of the 20th century saw this technology refined and engineered into machines that were mass-produced. By the end of the 1990s, inkjet printing was relatively cheap for home consumers to use because of the costs of materials and the costs of methods of production.

Usually, inkjet reviews can help you sort out the differences in the advantages and disadvantages in using an inkjet printer versus another kind of printer (as listed above). For one thing, inkjet printers are generally quiet (dot-matrix printers are really loud and obnoxious – as are even laser printers to an extent). The technology of inkjet printers allows these machines to print very fine and smooth details because of the componentry – microscopic nozzles are the basis of the technology, not drum reproduction or mechanical placing of dots like in other printing methods. People notice the quality up tick when printing photos with inkjet printers for this reason.

Inkjet reviews, of course, will also highlight some of the inefficiencies and less-than-optimal things about inkjet printing. For one, the ink itself is grossly expensive – studies have shown that at the market price of just the ink (not including the packaging or logistics of ink distributing), consumers would pay over $8000 a gallon for the stuff if the price were constant across economies of scale! That is far and away one of the most expensive resources a household could buy, although most would not think it so. Other advances in technology have gone a long way in increasing product quality, but have traded off in these areas with things like pricing.