Office printers

Are you thinking of buying a new office printer? Well, there are numerous models and it’s not an easy task to find an office printer that suit all your needs. In this article we’ll discuss some moments, which might help you to make a right decision.

1. Printing needs

a. Before buying a printer answer the followeing queations:
b. Do you need a monochrome office priner or a color one?
c. How many pages you’re planning to print every month?
d. What is the priority - quality or quantity?
e. Do you need a printer that is shared by a working group or do you need for home users?
f. What is your budget?
Once you’ve answered all these question you can step up next. The price and technical features of your future office printer depend on these answers.

2. Printer types

There are inkjet and laser printers. The inkjet printers are much cheaper, but they have a small capacity of printouts, plus the cartridges are quite expensive. The speed is good, and the quality is spectacular, but if you need to print thouthands of pages better look for laser office printers. So if you’re planning to print thouthands of monochrome pages - laser printer suits your needs better. These office printers usually have capacity of a couple thousands of pages, they are fast, big and expensive. But they definitely worth their money, especially in big offices.

3. Resolution

The clarity and quality of printouts depends on printer resolution. Top office printers has a resolution of many thousands dpi (dots per inch). But typical monochrome office printers have resolution of 1200×600 dpi or so. With such resolution even the smallest fonts are clearly visible.
Color printers have bigger resolution to perform better quality for colorous images.

4. Speed

The speed of a printer is measured in ppm (pages per minute). Typical inkjet office printers have a speed of 6-20 ppm depending on selected printing quality. Laser office printers are much faster you can get about 30ppm for monochrome documents and even more.

5. Connectivity and compatibility

Always check that your printer is compatible with your system. If you’re planning to use it like an network station, check that you have all required software and hardware. Always check that printer has a USB port, Ethernet port (optional) and LAN port if you’re planning to use office printer in your network.

6. Compare Prices

Review different stores and compare prices before buying an office printer. Calculate the gross expenditure, which includes cost of the printer, the cost of packing and shipping cost. If all the costs meet your budget you can buy your printer. The prices for laser office printer are in range of $200 to $10000 for big all-functional machines.