Advantages and disadvantages of Inkjet Printers

Advantages of Inkjet Printers:

• It can be low cost to buy and offer good resolution.

• The printer can be used for other things while it is not required for labels.

• Color in labels can be printed at a reasonable cost.

Disadvantages of Inkjet Printers:

• Not as accurate as laser or thermal for barcodes. Because of the rough nature of the "Bleed" into the paper it means the barcodes may require to be printed at a larger size.
  

• Reasonably slow to print.

• Normal Inks will regularly run or bleed if exposed to water. Special Inks are more expensive.

• Prints entire sheet of labels at a time, not perfect for small batches of labels.

• Requires some drying time.

• Ink cartridges for print labels can be expensive.