Originally Posted by Sheena
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Hi Julia,
When using the laser printer for your marketing and brochures, did you find it to be cheaper or more expensive than going to a outside vendor?
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It may not be a lot cheaper, but I was able to do small runs of documents which is nice and if I wanted to personalize stuff, I could. For example, when I was in BNI, I did a booklet to hand out to other members which was much easier to do myself than have it printed (I only needed 20) and when I wanted to revise it for a trade show and take out the BNI-specific stuff, I could do another run. I have since discovered Vista print which is nice for doing small runs, but it's nice to know that I can do it myself if necessary.
It also is great for doing letters, I didn't want to lay out hundreds of dollars for letterhead.
It's also a nice thing to have for clients, especially when they are running on a deadline and haven't got time to have a proposal colour copied at a copy shop. That happened last February when a client was on a deadline and she didn't have time to send it out, I was able to print it for her and meet her at Staples to have it cerloxed.
As far as cost goes, I think a colour laser is a lot more economical than an ink jet printer and the output looks so much better.