Sure but what if you're in your underwear and want to print a pretty page right now?

We have a cheap and reliable black and white laser printer at home for convenient printing of stuff like return labels.

On the rare occasion colour of photo prints are needed, there’s a great little independent print and photo place in town that does prints for pennies.

Seems to be the best of both worlds.

That's my strategy. If I add up all the printing I've done at libraries, schools, work, etc. it would cost a fraction of buying my own.

They take up so much space that can be used for more useful things, too.

Like owning a boat. Best of your friend has one and you bring the beers (paper).

I’ve been in the color laser gang since 2006 when they started to go under $500

you forgot the best part, the papers are all nice and warm

Sometimes, especially after ChatGPT became a thing. Most recently I printed a bunch of stuff for a Swedish writing assignment were I had to print out all of my online sources. They can't let have computers then, people will just generate some slop for the assignment

That probably made no sense but TLDR I'm 16 and in school and I regularly print stuff

First off, inkjet printers have way more issues than the ink being expensive.

Secondly, the average household isn't going to be printing enough to have to replace the drum every few years, or for toner dust to have an actual impact on indoor air quality.

My laser printer is nearly 20 years old, and I've only ever changed the drum because it came packaged with the toner cartridge, and I've only had to change that once.

What's the reason to keep the inkjet?

Ok. My HL-3170CDW color laser was on sale for like $160 when I got it almost 10 years ago. Still on the original oem toner and drums, and just printed off a bunch of stuff in color last week.