For colour work, the inkjet is once again a compromise between the desirable laser and the disappointing dot-matrix machines. However, for only £50-£100 more than the price of a monochrome machine you can buy an inkjet capable of producing quite acceptable colour: not of photographic quality, but good enough for coloured text and charts and simple pictures. however, colour inkjets are significantly more expensive to run than monochrome models. For a start, you only get the best color if you use special paper that can cost anything from 8p to 30p per sheet and a £25 ink cartridge might only last around 80 pages. Monochrome pages cost around 3p each.
