Choose a laser printer for your home

Just a few years ago, when choosing a printer, many buyers preferred jet models. After all, their incredibly low cost made such a purchase very attractive from a financial point of view. As an example, you can specify some printers of Lexmark, the price of which did not exceed $ 20. In addition, the ability to print color images, than could not boast of matrix varieties, was a very significant "bonus". But the color laser printer for the house seemed fantastic. First of all, because its value was equal, and sometimes exceeded the price of a good laptop.

Recently, the situation in the field of office equipment is changing rapidly and even a person with average income can afford to buy a laser printer for home. True, models for black and white printing are still available, but color ones are still very expensive. But history has made science fiction a reality many times, therefore, it is quite possible that in a couple of years the jets will be the same curiosity as now matrix ones, and their place will be occupied by a laser printer for the house, capable of printing in color.

We point out the main advantages of such devices:

- high speed of printing;

- low cost of a print if economical settings are used;

- there is no danger of ink drying during a long break in work. Therefore, you can forget about the need to turn on the printer once a week for prevention purposes;

- durability of prints, as they are not washed away by water;

- a larger number of printed sheets from a single cartridge refilling, compared to ink jet strips without an external ink supply system.

Thus, a laser printer for a home is often more preferable. However, only with a weighted choice. Let's try to figure out how to choose a laser printer for the home.

One of the main rules is to not overpay for functions that are not needed or used rarely. For example, the desire to sometimes print on A3 sheets will require the purchase of a device whose cost exceeds the price of a standard A4 printer by more than 5 times.

Laser printer for home, as, indeed, for the office, is characterized by the allowable number of prints per month. This value is obtained, taking into account the natural wear and tear of the device. The printer can give out and more, but its service life will be exhausted much earlier. Sometimes it makes sense to purchase a more expensive model with an increased resource.

For everyday tasks it is enough buffer memory with a volume of 2 MB. An exception is the need for frequent printing of complex images from PPT and PDF files.

The performance of the printer processor directly depends on the amount of memory the device has. For a model with 2 MB, the processing frequency is 100 MHz. Unless when buying a printer with the ability to expand the buffer, you can choose a processor "with a margin."

Also worth paying attention to the interface. On the market, you can still meet printers that connect to the computer through the parallel port of LPT. As a rule, this is either "used" or leftovers in warehouses. It is more preferable to choose a model with USB interface.