Transcription: As a general purpose printer for the home or small office, an inkjet is ideal, especially if you want to print in colour. Dot matrix printers produce very poor quality output by comparison, and a colour laser printer will set you back four or five thousand pounds. Printing on special paper, an inkjet printer is capable of producing output of near photographic quality. The resolutions of 600 or 720 dots per inch are now common, but it can cost a little more to run an inkjet printer than a laser printer or dot matrix. The ink cartridges can be expensive. An inkjet printer prints by squirting ink ...