Printer Guide - What are they and their functions?

Get to know the different types of printer and choose the one best suit your printing needs.

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Laser Printer

It is an ideal printing solution for small to medium workgroups and personal users with fast, professional results in both colour and mono. It works with all common operating system and integrates easily with your network and applications. The laser printer is easy to maintain, with reliable and long-lasting consumable.

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Inkjet Printer

It is an ideal for all printing needs, including photos. It provides high-quality colour printing to their capabilities without the worry of high cost. It is a cost effective and easy-to –use printer.

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Designjet Printer

An ideal printing for all large format printing including graphics, photography, fine art and proofing. They will produce the ultimate black & white & colour prints of any size on with wide range of materials. An exceptional image quality allows you to retain the depth and form in 3-D solid models and create photo-realistic renderings. You can print sizes from full bleed A4 to A0+ and larger on rolls up to 1.5m wide.

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Dot Matrix Printer

It a letter-quality printer that anticipates all your paper needs. It is a straight paper path and adjustable print head gap allows printing on a variety of paper sizes and thickness. This printer handles paper including multipart forms (an original with up to 6 copies), invoicing correspondence labeling, bar-coding, point-of-sale materials, ticketing and shipping documents, as well as printing on cheque-books, passbooks and the thickest card stocks. It is easy use, highly reliable and with very low running costs, they are ideal for retail, small business and office applications.

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Bar Code Printer

Barcode printers are useful for companies and businesses that need to produce a barcode for resale or inventory purposes. A barcode label printer makes labels that are machine-readable symbols conformed from a pattern. Barcodes are used in database management and inventory, they hold a lot information and are virtually error free.

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Receipt Printer

They are basically two types of receipt printers. You can choose between dot-matrix receipt printers and thermal printer. Although they are noisier than thermal printers a dot matrix receipt printer is very reliable and has low operating costs. They are also the cheapest printer available.

A thermal receipt printer uses a special heat sensitive ribbon or paper to create images instead of dots, print faster and quieter and has fewer moving components. Thermal printers cannot print on multi-parts forms, where dot matrix printer can.

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