Going back to the days of the dot matrix printer (for those of you who remember what those are) the entrance of the ink-jets on to the market heralded a victory for those fed up with the noise of their machine-gun like ribbon printers. Ink-jets were quiet, fast, and produced near Laser printer quality pages. The only problem was that the ink cartridges either dried up, or ran out of ink rather quickly. For the most part Laser printers have remained out of the reach of the SOHO office crowd and home user because of their price, and size. Of all the computer peripherals you can get, Laser printers tend to be the biggest and boxiest of the bunch. However, the move from very popular and inexpensive ink jet printer is starting to happen as a new class of SOHO laser printers enter the market.