"As a company we're totally committed to sustainable innovation and action, and inkjets simply use less energy and fewer consumable parts," explained Epson sale

"As a company we're totally committed to sustainable innovation and action, and inkjets simply use less energy and fewer consumable parts," explained Epson sales and marketing manager Koichi Kubota in canned statement. "While laser printers work by heating and fusing toner to a page, Epson's Heat-Free inkjet technology consumes less electricity by using mechanical energy to fire ink onto the page." This seems like a really simplistic calculation, which takes no account of the real-world experience using printers. Unless you're using them on an almost daily basis, inkjets clog up all the time. Forcing you to waste more electricity, paper and ink, trying to get the feckers to print cleanly again. They also have chipped cartridges which refuse to print when they decide there's no ink left [based purely on a print count. None of them actually measure remaining ink]. The cartridges last nowhere near as long as those on a laser printer. And so more packaging and plastic waste is generated when having to replace them so regularly. I finally got rid of my expensive Canon inkjet about 7 or 8 months ago because I only print very occasionally these days and, every time I did, it ended up being a half hour or more ordeal of head cleaning, cartridge molyycoddling and general wall headbutting, just to print something really simple like a label for an envelope. I replaced it with an el cheapo Brother laser printer which has given me absolutely zero problems so far. In fact yesterday I had to print a label and I sent it to the Brother laser printer [which I hadn't used in probably a month]. It woke up, spat out the print and then went back to sleep again. Total time [and therefore electricity use] about 10 seconds. It would have had to be the most inefficient device ever made to have used more electricity & resources [paper and ink] in tha time than that damned inkjet would have done during its marathon 'how many ways can I annoy you?' session.