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Whats the approximate difference in cost per pages between color ink jet and color laser printers?

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1. Gosh, did you price the color laser printer and what a set of color toner modules will cost? You better have alot of printing lined up. Let's say that you get 300 pages of full color in your HP deskjet. Let's not count the cost of the paper. The cartridges cost about $75, so that's 25 cents a sheet. Let's say that you get about 2000 pages of full color from your HP color LaserJet. The cartridges cost about $400 for all four. (Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow). That is about 10 cents a sheet. But don't run long print jobs on your color laser printer. Print just 25 at a time. If you run too many, heat will build up and ruin your printouts. If you push it, you will BURN OUT your laser printer. So be warned.
2. Depends a lot on how much printing you do. A color laser is substantially more expensive both to purchase and to buy supplies for, but if you print a lot of pages, it saves you big bucks in the long run. Here's a post from someone who figured it up and found that he could spend $1000 on a color laser printer, keep it in supplies, and wind up with a cost per page of 11 1/2 cents over a 200,000 page lifecycle. JUST THE INK for an injet printer would run over 25 cents a page. http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-10150-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=95569&messageID=1088835 Of course, most home computer users won't print 200,000 pages their entire life.