All-In-One Printers

Over the last few years, all-in-one printers have come down in price. These printers are very high quality and come in a large variety of sizes, types and shapes for business and home use, with the inkjet printer still the most popular because it is the least expensive, although slower. The all-in-one printer offers a countless number of features along with document printing, such as functioning as a scanner, photocopier and fax machine. This takes up far less space than three individual pieces of office equipment, and they are less expensive but far easier to maintain. Some of these printers also include email and internet services. If you require excellent image manipulation and color reproduction, you will pay more but still have the convenience of one all-in-one printer instead of several machines.

Different Options

For an individual who requires the basic copier, scanner and printer, the flat bed scanner printer is inexpensive but gives you all you require to scan images, print documents and photocopy at home. For anyone with a small business, an all-in-one printer that also has fax technology, optical character recognition for scanning and editing documents and an automatic document feeder that allows you to consecutively fax or scan may be perfect. If you use the all-in-one for text the majority of time, a laser printer gives cleaner, sharper text output so is well worth looking into. An inkjet all-in-one printer is great for anyone that has high quality images to scan and transmit. You can use high quality paper to print excellent photographic images on an inkjet, which then lets you print direct input from your digital camera, often using PictBridge technology. You can output to many media types including DVD's and CD’s.

Features

Some of the many features available in different models of all-in-one printers are:

• PictBridge – transferring images from your digital camera's memory card directly onto a compatible all-in-one printer, without using editing software or a computer
• Laser all-in-one printer – very sharp, clear text reproduction, especially for cards, non-standard paper sizes and envelopes – faster than inkjet
• Inkjet Printer – produces photographic quality outputs and perfect for all-round use although the text quality and speed is slower
• Consumables – many low-priced machines have high running costs such as extremely expensive ink cartridges, while higher priced machines often have lower priced consumables, so they are the better choice
• Memory – this is used not only to store but also to process information, so the more memory available, the faster the device prints
• Automatic document feeder – Unlike a flat bed scanner, you consecutively fax, scan or copy, which is considerable faster than one page at a time

Spend a little time shopping around and purchase the perfect all-in-one printer to meet your needs.