What to Look For While Choosing a Portable Laser Printer
With the cost of printer ink these days, it's often tempting to just buy a whole new printer when your cartridges are empty. After all, you can buy a new printer for about the same amount as a set of black and color cartridges, right?
When it comes to choosing a portable printer, most major printer companies make them these days. Whether it is Canon, HP, Brother or any of the other well-known brands are offering an increasingly wider selection. There are portable printers that have the ability of just handling documents in black-and-white, or full color, or images that are of photographic quality, or even those that can produce high definition laser output.
Of course, your exact requirements will help you to decide on the right model. For example, what kind of printing will you need to do? Will you require color printouts or not? Will the quality of the printing be an important factor? And, what will be the volume of your printing?
Check Out the Inkjet Portable Printer: Amongst all the types of printers, the inkjet is considered the most versatile. They can be used for producing text, photographs, and graphics. The quality and accuracy is mainly dependent on the dpi, or dots per inch. The more the dots per inch, the better the quality, in terms of the sharpness of the graphics or text, and the colors and shades in photos.
However, the dpi can vary according to the kind of ink used, as well as the fonts, shading and colors. You will need to check out the quality yourself, which is best done by asking a reputable dealer to provide a demonstration. Inkjet printers use different kinds of paper according to whatever task needs to be done, and the type of paper used can influence the quality of the printing. For example, photographic paper will be required for printing photographs, and heavier bond will be used for printing business letters than required for reports or other documents.
If you do want to print photos, consider how much you'll spend on them. A photo printer can cost up to $1.00 per print by the time you consider ink and paper costs. You can get your pictures printed for much less than that at your local photo lab or on a website like Snapfish.com.
If you only want to print 4x6 photos, you might be better off buying two printers - one for your day-to-day use and a small photo printer that is designed just for printing 4x6 prints. They generally cost less to operate than their larger counterparts, and they are fairly portable if you want to be able to take it with you to make digital prints while on the go.
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