How To Choose The Printer That Best Suits Your Needs

By Matthew Kerridge

We all buy printers to use in our business or for home use. The obvious reason we use a printer is to print important documents, but we know that a printer can do more than that. No matter the reason you need this type of machine, I am going to teach you how to purchase the right printer for your specific job.

Printers are not just for printing out plain documents anymore. You can use your printer to produce gorgeous digital photographs and things like business letters and business cards. Printer manufactures have made it easy for those of us who need professional items printed. You can print anything from marketing reports to personal newsletters with pictures with the help of a printer.

Let us start with the features of a multifunction printer, most have a scanner and fax, telephone and copier. You must be asking yourself why you would need a printer like that. This one machine does the jobs of several different machines. With all these features you do not need to have an extra phone or fax machine. It has a built in scanner, you save on buying a stand alone scanner. It copies your documents, so there is no need to purchase a copier. You will save money buying one machine instead of 4 or 5 different machines.

Let us discuss the ink jet printer. They are not very expensive and can be found in most department stores. The ink jet is really an easy printer to use. It is used for basic documents as well as digital pictures. If you use your printer on a daily basis, you will need to buy a replacement cartridge about once a month. The price of the replacement cartridge is between 15 to 40 dollars each depending on the name brand. This is something to consider when purchasing this kind of printer.

You have some basic knowledge of the ink jet printer, let us move onto to the laser printer. These machines print much faster and taking care of them is an easy task. They last longer than your typical printer. The one drawback that I see is that they can be very pricey. Shopping around at different shops and comparing the prices is the way to go with any purchase you make.

One of the oldest printers that is around today, it is called the dot matrix. When it was first introduced it was fantastic because the public had the ability to print things at home. If you compare the dot matrix and the ink jet, you would be comparing technology. The dot matrix is very slow and loud. Of course the print quality is better today than it used to be.

At this point you have enough information about the different printers to make a well informed decision to purchase. Some of the printers we discussed are more expensive than the others. It is just a matter of comparison shopping until you find the one you want that you can afford, and the one that will be the most useful to you. Also consider the cost of the replacement cartridges because those can be pricey as well. You can find sales on replace cartridges all the time. - 29854

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