color lasers rattling down the road will dump toner inside them as well. Not as messy as wet ink, but still messy.
Inkjets might be cheap to buy, but once you start making payments on the ink cartridges you'll wish you had a laser.
So it really depends on how much you print. Personally, I like the Inkjets that when you replace the ink, you also replace the head. Bit more expensive, but they tend to last longer. I bought into the Epson printers when they came out with there nice inkjets where you only replaced the ink cartridge. Problem was, once the head got clogged, it was a throw-away printer.
