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Living In a Hot Climate? Expect Some Issues With Your Inkjet Printer

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If you live anywhere where it gets very hot and have very limited cooling for your home office chances are you’ve dealt with a clogged inkjet printer. The heat in these areas can dry out the ink before you can get much more than a few sheets from the cartridge and by the time you’ve sorted out that out you’ve probably already gone through a few of them. So what can you do?
Actually the best solution for this problem is simpler than it seems. While inkjet printers can be great (and even possible in hot climates if you can maintain the level of coolness they need to function) laser printers are less of a hassle in hot, dry climates (not as much in humid climates where the paper gets damp and either sticks together or produces running ink on documents).
Why?
There are a few things going for the laser printer over the inkjet despite the higher price of the former. Laser printers produce a higher print yield per cartridge (the amount of documents that can be printed per ink cartridge) for one and they also tend to have a longer life even in the heat. Laser cartridges are also less likely to gunk up your printer. This means that as long as you print an occasional document or two in times of less frequent usage you should have a printer that can work for you even in the hot, dry heat of the southwest.