Finally, this generates two clearly different proposals: "cheap printer - expensive ink" or "expensive printer - cheap ink".

But as expensive as the dye sublimation printers are, the hidden costs are even more forbidding.

Separately, the company said it had hired Flextronics, an electronics manufacturer, to take over production of its expensive large-format printers.

For paper sizes that are bigger than that, you have to have to use a more expensive printer.

The least expensive printer from Olympus is $500.

If you think that's an expensive printer my last enlarger cost £3500 20 years ago and all it did was shine a light.

The fuser can be an infrared oven, a heated pressure roller, or (on some very fast, expensive printers) a xenon flash lamp.

The company recently determined that it could save $185,000 a year with two clerks hand-delivering computer printouts to a certain office instead of installing a new, expensive printer there.

Big manufacturers have long used expensive three-dimensional printers, but some relatively inexpensive options have made it to the market.

In some cases, however, less expensive printers can be used to make a mould, which is then used to make metal parts.