10 Reasons Against Networking an InkJet Printer - DocumentationSpace - Confluence--GCC Wiki Implementation

Networked printers need to support a high level of printing volume, usually measured in pages per minute. [InkJet] printers are not mechanically designed to achieve printing ecomony with respect to speed and print queue jobs will back up resulting in higher IT costs for administration.
The costs per page of printing with [InkJet] is 10 to 20 times more expensive than by using [LaserJet] printing. The price difference is mostly due to Ink cartidges.
The IT costs for maintaining [InkJet] printers are more costly due to the extra wear and tear on mechanical parts. Simply put, [InkJet] printer are engineered for small office and personal use, not multiple office (high volume) printing.
[InkJet] printers are well suited to either local USB or parallel port connections. This ensures a smaller output volume because the resource is not shared between multiple computers.
A sudden increase on networked personal [InkJet] printers would take up extra ports on our infrastructure communication closets. We do not have the port density to fullfill all these requests.