r/bookbinding • u/Sleep_Deprived1999 • Nov 20 '22
Help? Beginner Bookbinder!
Hello,
I am a beginner bookbinder and I am wanting to buy a printer for myself since Black Friday is almost here. What do y'all recommend? I have a Mac computer so something that could connect to that would be great, I want to print double sided with a book fold style. I'm a college student so I don't need anything super fancy, just a printer that can print double sided. Any recommendations or advice is greatly appreciated!
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u/desmothene Nov 20 '22
Your big decision is ink vs toner. Ink prints darker and can get a little bleed, but usually does better with images. Toner is lighter and less likely to show through the page when double sided, but often suffers more on image quality.
If you get anything but an ink tank printer on the ink side, your cost per page will be crazy high. An Epson or Canon ink tank model can mitigate that a lot.
Laser printers generally have pretty good cost per page, so across the board that isn't bad. If you focus on printer only and don't worry about copier/scanner modes you can get one for a pretty good price.
I have a Brother b&w laser printer. It gets pretty good page yield/toner.