The technology of computers is constantly improving but there is one aspect in this front that has not received much attention and that is printer technology. There are many businesses that require working from home which includes various functions like scanning, copying and faxing. For these requirements many a times a separated piece of equipment is fitted to get the work done.
To install or use separate piece of device for these functions is a big investment in itself but it also consumes a lot of space. So due to these constraints there is a new invention that has stormed the market with its multi-utility functions and that is a multi-function printer. It comes with the ability to print, scan and fax. It is a one electronic piece of device which performs all the functions and also requires much less space and it is less expensive too.
The prime importance of these devices is that it does all the functions perfectly but obviously not to the level of perfection which a stand alone device performs.
The first thing that needs to be taken into consideration is the type of printer that you are opting to buy like there are a wide range of these kinds of products like inkjet, LaserJet or color jet. The inkjet printers function by forcing the variably sized droplets of ink into a piece of paper or a similar medium.
Whereas a laser printer generates the text and graphics on a plain paper by using the same technology compared to the digital photocopiers. They use a xerographic printing process but it differs from the analog photocopiers where the required image is developed by the direct scanning of a laser beam across the printer's photoreceptor.
The required speed of a laser printer is measured in terms of ppm (pages per minute) and the number of pages of a laser or an inkjet can be produced in one minute. The print speed of the laser or the inkjet may differ on various factors like the complexity of the documents generated, the required page coverage and the design of the printer itself.