Was discussing this today at Linux10 with Deirdre Saoirse Moen. She's got a ~$200 LED printer, I don't recall the make, that compares favorably with Laser.

It replaces the laser mechanism with an LED bar, operates at 300 dpi, and newer systems produce at 6-9 ppm. Other than the LED bar, mechanism is the same as a laserprinter, but with far fewer moving parts. LED bar is a $50 replacement item should a light burn out.

I'm going to disagree with the comment (was it Peter?) that toner/fuser printers have higher operation costs than inkjets. In general, toner/fuser systems get far more pages per cartridge, for a lower per-page cost. Toner doesn't suffer from drying out if used over a long period of time, nor is there the old "we're out of blue but hardly touched the red" problem of running out of ink at different rates. Laser performance, particularly with postscript-enabled printers, blows doors on ink.

Inkjets are IMVAO one of the bigger and more successful HW scams pulled on the consumer market.