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# 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.
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