When buying a laser printer for the office, one should be guided by its performance and functionality, but for a home user, it will be problematic to deal with a too “fancy” device. Therefore, when choosing a technique, it is necessary to focus not only on the signs of good quality, but also on a set of options that may be useful in work.
Instructions
Step 1
The instructions for each laser printer must indicate the limits of the recommended and maximum permissible daily and monthly load, that is, how many pages it can print without damaging its mechanism. The maximum that household devices are capable of is in the range from 7 to 15 thousand sheets per month, but if the user wants his device to last longer, he should limit himself to only one thousand. Dividing it by thirty days, you can get a figure of 33 pages per day - this is quite enough for an ordinary consumer. For strenuous office work, you need to buy a more productive laser printer, since when duplicating documents from a household one, the photo drum or other mechanics may break.
Step 2
The future clarity of color and text reproduction can be found out by paying attention to such a parameter as resolution. In inexpensive devices, it is 600 dpi, that is, dots per inch. This is enough for ordinary text, but firms and individual users who value quality even in the smallest detail choose laser printers with a resolution of 1200 dots, although such a unit will cost much more. Organizations that need office equipment to print not only A4 documents, but also drawings, should buy an A3 format device. It will be convenient to print graphs, diagrams and large tables on it.
Step 3
The output of the very first sheet always occurs with a slight delay. This is due to the fact that the mechanism needs to "warm up". The time of such a delay is also an important parameter, because not everyone will agree to wait for their document for as long as 15 seconds, especially in the mode of perpetual office rush. Some manufacturers have reduced this interval to 7-8 seconds. Speed is also reflected in the number of pages printed per minute. Although for many, how many there will be - 12 or 15 - is not important. High speed is provided by the best processor, which processes the incoming volume of information faster and sends it to print.
Step 4
It is necessary to take into account in advance what exactly will appear on the white pages: plain text, graphics or "heavy" PDF-pictures. The required amount of memory of the future device depends on this. For ordinary texts, 8 MB is enough, but users who plan to print PDF-files should attend to the purchase of a smarter technique, which contains either an additional slot for expanding memory, or a built-in compression algorithm for incoming information. It is also worth paying attention to the operating system that the laser printer supports, because some of them are released for one specific OS.
