Choosing Printer

When deciding to buy a printer you must ask yourself ‘would I need color? ‘Or’ I will mostly print black and white? “. If you do not have to color most cost-effective printer is a laser printer. There are also color laser printers but replacement cartridges are still very expensive (a set of three colors and one black cartridge) can cost more than the original price of the printer.

A black toner cartridge for a black and white printer only costs around 2-3 cents per copy, while an inkjet printer will cost around 10 cents a copy. So it may be that if you only do a few color prints occasionally you could have a laser printer (priced from around $ 100) and a low price inkjet printer (priced around $ 50), which may include a scanner, so you can make colored photocopies too.

Printers are available as just a standalone printer or a multifunction device that has a scanner and can transmit faxes, do photocopying, makes printing in black and white or color and also scan a document or image in the computer’s memory. This is very suitable for home office (SOHO), where space is usually limited and it can handle all the usual office tasks.

If there are more computers in the office, you can use a network printer. It’s probably cheaper to buy a high speed network printer than buying individual printers for each computer.

Network printers are now available with wireless capability so that other computers can connect to it wirelessly. A wireless receiver card must only be provided with each computer.

Toner cartridges can see animals, but a $ 100 cartridge will usually do around 2000 to 3000 copies (about 3-5 cents a copy)

With cartridges they only make about 200 copies (there are some XL models now that can do double the amount) for about $ 50 (about 25 cents a copy.)

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