At work, I help clients with many choosing a new printer. So in this article I will cover some of the most common questions I receive. But ... Before you go looking for a new printer, here are some things you should ask.
1. What are my printing needs? Do you really want to know what you print before choosing a printer. Some printers are more efficient for some types of pressure are then others. Some can be very expensivewait, if everything is going to make you do your print job.
2. How many pages per day, week, month, I will print? Volumes of the press is important. For example, if your print volume is high, you might want a laser printer for the long term cost savings to consider.
3. I have to print photographs or documents only. While photo-quality printer, a document is printed, it can be expensive having to do some printers, such as black ink cartridges, often tend todifferent prices, sometimes higher, sometimes lower than that of color.
4. Do I even need to print in color or black and white? Small black and white laser printers have come down in prices in those days.
5. What kind of paper I use? (Cardboard, paper, mailing labels, etc.) If you want to print greeting cards on board, you should go with a slightly higher end printers. Inexpensive printers can not handle the thickness ofPaper.
6. Is the printer I replaced it with a USB cable or a parallel (large plug of fat)? Printer no longer come to them with the hook up cables to your computer.
7. It also helps the age of the computer you are hooking it up was too familiar. If you are still using Windows 95, you pretty bad luck and it would be better looking for a used printer on eBay, Windows 98, 's which will be difficult. If you're using XP, the USB ports are stilloutdated and need modernization, installation at a price of about $ 30 dollars for a USB 2.0 card and $ 30 for too. (If you bought your computer in the last 3 years or so, you must familiarize yourself with this order.) Can also be useful if you know the amount of space on your computer and processor speed. This can, by clicking on the Control Panel on the Start menu and then click the System icon found.
Once you know this information, you are ready to select a printer. The first thingyou notice is that there are many differences between the printers.
Laser vs. inkjet
For the average user at home, an inkjet printer is adequate. Most people want to be, I am concerned with the location for printing the occasional photo from their digital cameras and their documents. Some want to print out their duty. An inkjet printer is great for this.
Laser printers are designed to meet the needs of a society. They are cheapereffective for printing in large quantities. Do not use ink, instead of using a powdery substance called toner. Many of them are in black and white, and to make a single toner cartridge, color laser printers with four toner cartridges, black, cyan, magenta and yellow.
Laser printers are usually a low-resolution printing and photo quality are not considered. But to give a permanent bond, so that if you want to print brochures, can do betteron a laser printer. If the paper gets wet, you can still read, compared to an inkjet printer. Some of them, such as Oki, use a wax-based toner that gives you a beautiful magazine quality glossy prints, but mainly from a flat surface.
A toner cartridge can vary in price from $ 50 upwards. Even if the toner is generally more expensive per cartridge, page yield average 3000-5000 and printed pages per cartridge. Ink cartridges are available from about 200 to600 pages per cartridge. This page usually leads to the printing of text with only 5% coverage is based.
Photo Printers vs. Document Printer
In inkjet printers, there are differences between the two. This has to do mainly with the ink. There are two types of dye-based inks that are better for photos, and pigment-based inks that are better for the documents. Some colors are chemically designed to work with manufacturers of photo paper brand, but most brands pictures --The card works with any printer. Hewlett Packard, for example, a type of bar code on the back of the photo paper that your printer is made law, which is a chemical bond with HP photo paper and therefore faster to print.
Another difference is in the head (where the ink squirts out). With Canon, Brother, Epson, HP and some more recent, the print heads are actually a part of the machine. This requires a periodic pressure, I would say at least one page per month (one weekbetter), otherwise it might dry the print heads, and thus may also be more convenient to replace the printer if the print head replacement are also available. These printers are better for printing photos.
Most HP and Lexmark, the print head is part of the cartridge. So, if you replace the cartridge, you get a new printhead. These are usually best document to the printer, even if it is a good quality photo prints from the others tend to be better.
TheMarket trends in printers for domestic calls more on the quality of photos. With print resolutions reaching 9600 dpi (dots per inch), which would never know the difference between a photo printed on the printer vs. one that will be printed in your local camera store. But many of the new features of some of these printers can be confusing.
Features
Photo printers are equipped with a host of new features, such as card reader and LCD screens. With this combination, you canTake the card from your digital camera and put it in the printer. Then view the images on the screen and you can print the picture, dass
PictBridge functions is another common feature. With this type of device, insert the bridge enabled camera photos into the printer and tell it to print the image from the camera. Almost all brand name digital camera 2 to 3 years old, these capibility.
All in a machine that can print, copy,Scanning and some even have fax capabilities. A fax with a phone line jack in the printer. Many of them might not work properly with older computers due to the obsolete USB ports.
Some network printers are ready. You can print in a router and connect from any computer on the network. Others can be used in a network with a print server.
Attachments
Although most printers have a number of cartridges that are normally starter cartridges. This first series is abouthalf to one third of the color in a series of new cartridges. The seller will try to talk to you in a set of cartridges.
You must also purchase a USB cable to connect the printer. With older printers came with a parallel cable to connect to computers, these cables obsolete. In order to be ready to buy a cable.
