Laser printers can’t produce the print quality of the best inkjets. DesignJets and the Epson equivalents are still the top devices for proofing, and some of them have as many as 78 inks. Toner has to be fused onto the page and that causes problems for a lot of dyes, whereas inkjets can work with almost anything that can be suspended in a carrier. Plus, of course, there’s the problem of the sheer size and hence cost of the mirror assemblies used in 11 by 17 printers, and keeping them registered.
The laser printer has been a very successful technology but it has also basically been obsolete for years; nobody wants to disrupt the industry and the income flow by a widespread change to inkjet and wax.
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