If you print frequently, inkjets are probably fine. I often go weeks or months without printing anything though and when I had an inkjet I remember putting in a new set of cartridges and printing a few pages
then often by the next time I wanted to use it I'd find the thing all dried out and clogged up.
Ha, been down that road a couple of times and the lesson 'twice bitten = sucker'
cost a couple of seized/dried/clogged/cross contaminated color cartridges
and crusty intermittent performing black cartridges = useless
The black ones can be sort of rescued by soaking the bottom sponge/PCB section in warm water, and an alternating clean up/blot routine pressing gently on white tissue paper,
till it 'blots' black and thickish as it should in the printer. Dry the black cartridge and put back in the printer and do a few nozzle cycles till the test prints come out
BLACK black
easier to do than it sounds
and works on my Lexmark Z53 printer which I believe was rebadged for other brands too
What I may try next time I need color, is to buy a new color cartridge again
get the job done,
then remove and store that cartridge as it came, and put back the dud next to the black (so the printer can operate)
Might have a fighting chance perhaps and save a bundle
fwiw: when this printer is de-dusted, de-mucked, new cartridges fitted, run with a few clean nozzle/test print cycles,
the prints are as good as it gets and look pro
EDIT: laser printer noob question > can you use jet printer paper on laser printers?
i.e. is it the same stuff?