Mobile Printer

Summarize Article By:Mack Harris

Many home businesses not only require printing functions but scanning, copying and faxing as well. One of the newer creations in the field is the multifunction printer, with the ability to print, scan and fax. The first feature that needs to be taken into consideration is the type of printer: multi-function printers can be inkjet, laserjet, or color laserjet. Inkjet printers operate by forcing variably-sized droplets of ink onto a piece of paper or similar medium. A laser printer produces text and graphics on plain paper, using the same technology as digital photocopiers; they employ a xerographic printing process but differ from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning of a laser beam across the printer's photoreceptor.
The speed of a laser printer or inkjet printer is measured by the ppm (pages per minute), the number of pages a laser or inkjet printer can produce in one minute. Print speeds of laser or inkjet printers may vary depending on many factors such as the complexity of the document, page coverage, and the design of the printer itself. A typical inkjet printer may print at speeds that vary between 1 to 28 pages per minute for black text and 1 to 20 pages per minute for color, photographs or graphics. The print speed of a typical color laser printer's will vary between 6 to 20 pages per minute for black text and 1 to 12 pages per minute for color graphics. Image quality is another feature to examine and depends on the number dots per inch printed. The more dots printed per inch, the higher the image quality.
The scanner function is also of great importance in a multifunction printer that can use two types of scanning technologies. CIS devices typically produce lower image quality compared to CCD devices but make the printer more durable. The flat-bed ones allow scanning of thicker objects.
Other fax features that might be offered are color faxing, fax broadcasting, and/or group dialing, as many multifunction printers do not offer full fax functions.
Finally, given all the functions a multifunction printer requires to carry out, a lack of internal memory is extremely noticeable. While 8 MB of memory may be adequate for home office or small office use, an efficient and effective multifunction printer that have at least 16 MB of memory or more.
Rugged mobile printers are built rugged laptops. Rugged mobile printers can be mounted in vehicles next to your rugged notebook or some are mounted directly to a rugged computing device. From 2.5" to 4" receipt printers, to full sheet 8" x 11" size printers. A rugged printer will handle any job while on the road printing inventory receipts or printing law enforcement issued citations.