Printers

Different types of printers work in different ways. Inkjet machines print by putting drops of ink onto the paper to form words and images. This is done by either putting a slight pressure on the ink cartridge to force ink out, or by using a current to heat the ink, which then forms bubbles which push the ink out. Most home and small office printers currently use the first of these methods, with many big businesses using the latter.

Laser printing works by using an electrostatic charge on a rotating drum. The document to be printed is imprinted on this drum in electronic form before being charged. The black and colour sections of the document will attract different charges, whilst white will not attract any. The toner inside the printer is then attracted to this electrostatic charge and deposited on the paper being run through the machine to duplicate the document.

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Although other types of printer are usually faster and produce better quality documents, this is the most common type of printer. This is especially true of home or desktop use because inkjet printers are inexpensive, easy for people to use and compatible with most computers.

Inkjet Printers

Inkjet Colour Printers

Inkjet All-in-One Printers

Laser printers are commonly used in offices where several people use the same printer. They are easy to network and produce good quality documents at a fast rate. They can also store large amounts of paper in the tray.

Laser Printers

Laser A3 Printers

Laser Colour Printers

Laser Desktop Printers

Laser Network Printers

Laser All-in-One Printers

These print each character individually as the printing head moves over the page. They are cheaper than laser printers or inkjet printers and are good for producing carbon copy documents, but they areusually considered too slow and noisy for general office use.

View our range of Dot Matrix printers.

These are widely used within design and publishing businesses. They use plastic dye film instead of standard printing ink, which means the consumables (ink refills, printing paper etc) are expensive, but this is compensated by the extremely high quality and work rate of the printer.

View our range of Dye Sublimination Printers.

These print line by line and have fast printing rates. They are considered too noisy for general office use though, and cannot print images or varying font types.

View our range of Line Matrix Printers.

Photo printers offer high quality colour printing. They are commonly used to print images from digital cameras, and many can be used by inserting the memory card directlyinto them rather than having to connect the camera to the printer. They are used in many photo-developing stores.

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These printers are designed specifically to print receipts and bar-code images. They are used by almost all restaurants, shops etc and are able to print varying typessuch as duplicate receipts for both the customer and the store.

View our range of Receipt, Barcode and Passbook Printers.

These combine other functions such as scanning, faxing and photocopying for a multipurpose office machine.

View All-in-One (Multifunction) Printers.

This will give an overview of the printer, such as whether it prints in monochrome (black and white/grey scale) or colour, and whether it is a laser or inkjet printer.

This is the size of paper that can be printed onto. The majority will use standard A4 paper, although A3 printers are also widely available.

Resolution is measured in dpi – dots per inch –and will determine the quality of your printouts. The higher the resolution, the better thequality will be.

This determines how your printer is connected to a Computer or office network. For small offices, a parallel port can be used for basic networks. Most printers use a USB connection, which is high speed and can be used to link many printersand computers together.

Printers use memory to store the documents whilst they are printed out. The greater the memory, the better the resolution and efficiency of the printer can become.

The number of sheets of paper the printer can hold ready to printonto. Some printers also state an Output Tray Capacity, which is the amount of printed sheets the printer can store.

This is the amount of sheets of paper that can be printed with outcausing excessive wear to the machine.

This determines whether the printer is compatible with the computers you wish to run it from. Most printers are compatible with any computers manufactured in the last eightyears, but if unsure please contact our support team or the printer manufacturer.

Print speed is measured in ppm – pages per minute. This is how many blank sheets the printer canget through in a minute rather than actual printed pages. Grey scale printing is much quicker than colour, and the greater the quality of the document, the longer it will take to print out. Laser printers are capable of much higher speeds than inkjet's.

This is the type of material that can be printed on effectively, such as plain paper and envelopes. All of these materials can be purchased on the Euroffice website.