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Types
Personal printers are primarily designed to support individual users, and may be connected to only a single computer. These printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs, requiring minimal setup time to produce a hard copy of a given document. However, they are generally slow devices ranging from 6 to around 25 pages per minute (ppm), and the cost per page is relatively high. However, this is offset by the on-demand convenience. Some printers can print documents stored on memory cards or from digital cameras and scanners.
Networked or shared printers are “designed for high-volume, high-speed printing”. They are usually shared by many users on a network and can print at speeds of 45 to around 100 ppm.[11] The Xerox 9700 could achieve 120 ppm.
A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resembles that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer. A virtual printer can be used to create a file which is an image of the data which would be printed, for archival purposes or as input to another program, for example to create a PDF or to transmit to another system or user.
A barcode printer is a computer peripheral for printing barcode labels or tags that can be attached to, or printed directly on, physical objects. Barcode printers are commonly used to label cartons before shipment, or to label retail items with UPCs or EANs.
A 3D printer is a device for making a three-dimensional object from a 3D model or other electronic data source through additive processes in which successive layers of material (including plastics, metals, food, cement, wood, and other materials) are laid down under computer control. It is called a printer by analogy with an inkjet printer which produces a two-dimensional document by a similar process of depositing a layer of ink on paper.
Technology
The choice of print technology has a great effect on the cost of the printer and cost of operation, speed, quality and permanence of documents, and noise. Some printer technologies do not work with certain types of physical media, such as carbon paper or transparencies.
A second aspect of printer technology that is often forgotten is resistance to alteration: liquid ink, such as from an inkjet head or fabric ribbon, becomes absorbed by the paper fibers, so documents printed with liquid ink are more difficult to alter than documents printed with toner or solid inks, which do not penetrate below the paper surface.
Cheques can be printed with liquid ink or on special cheque paper with toner anchorage so that alterations may be detected.[12] The machine-readable lower portion of a cheque must be printed using MICR toner or ink. Banks and other clearing houses employ automation equipment that relies on the magnetic flux from these specially printed characters to function properly.
Modern print technology
The following printing technologies are routinely found in modern printers:
Toner-based printers
Main article: Laser printing
A laser printer rapidly produces high quality text and graphics. As with digital photocopiers and multifunction printers (MFPs), laser printers employ a xerographic printing process but differ from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning of a laser beam across the printer’s photoreceptor.
Another toner-based printer is the LED printer which uses an array of LEDs instead of a laser to cause toner adhesion to the print drum.
Liquid inkjet printers
Liquid ink cartridge from Hewlett-Packard HP 845C inkjet printer
HP Deskjet, an inkjet printer
Inkjet printers operate by propelling variably sized droplets of liquid ink onto almost any sized page. They are the most common type of computer printer used by consumers.
Solid ink printers
Main article: Solid ink
Solid ink printers, also known as phase-change ink or hot-melt ink printers, are a type of thermal transfer printer, graphics sheet printer or 3D printer . They use solid sticks, crayons, pearls or granular ink materials. Common inks are CMYK-colored ink, similar in consistency to candle wax, which are melted and fed into a piezo crystal operated print-head. A Thermal transfer printhead jets the liquid ink on a rotating, oil coated drum. The paper then passes over the print drum, at which time the image is immediately transferred, or transfixed, to the page. Solid ink printers are most commonly used as color office printers and are excellent at printing on transparencies and other non-porous media. Solid ink is also called phase-change or hot-melt ink was first used by Data Products and Howtek, Inc., in 1984.[13] Solid ink printers can produce excellent results with text and images. Some solid ink printers have evolved to print 3D models, for example, Visual Impact Corporation[14] of Windham, NH was started by retired Howtek employee, Richard Helinski whose 3D patents US4721635 and then US5136515 was licensed to Sanders Prototype, Inc., later named Solidscape, Inc. Acquisition and operating costs are similar to laser printers. Drawbacks of the technology include high energy consumption and long warm-up times from a cold state. Also, some users complain that the resulting prints are difficult to write on, as the wax tends to repel inks from pens, and are difficult to feed through automatic document feeders, but these traits have been significantly reduced in later models. This type of thermal transfer printer is only available from one manufacturer, Xerox, manufactured as part of their Xerox Phaser office printer line. Previously, solid ink printers were manufactured by Tektronix, but Tektronix sold the printing business to Xerox in 2001.
Dye-sublimation printers
Main article: Dye-sublimation printer
A disassembled dye sublimation cartridge
A dye-sublimation printer (or dye-sub printer) is a printer that employs a printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to a medium such as a plastic card, paper, or canvas. The process is usually to lay one colour at a time using a ribbon that has colour panels. Dye-sub printers are intended primarily for high-quality colour applications, including colour photography; and are less well-suited for text. While once the province of high-end print shops, dye-sublimation printers are now increasingly used as dedicated consumer photo printers.
Thermal printers
Receipt printer printing a Twitter timeline
Thermal printers work by selectively heating regions of special heat-sensitive paper. Monochrome thermal printers are used in cash registers, ATMs, gasoline dispensers and some older inexpensive fax machines. Colours can be achieved with special papers and different temperatures and heating rates for different colours; these coloured sheets are not required in black-and-white output. One example is Zink (a portmanteau of “zero ink”).
Obsolete and special-purpose printing technologies
Epson MX-80, a popular model of dot-matrix printer in use for many years
The following technologies are either obsolete, or limited to special applications though most were, at one time, in widespread use.
Impact printers
Impact printers rely on a forcible impact to transfer ink to the media. The impact printer uses a print head that either hits the surface of the ink ribbon, pressing the ink ribbon against the paper (similar to the action of a typewriter), or, less commonly, hits the back of the paper, pressing the paper against the ink ribbon (the IBM 1403 for example). All but the dot matrix printer rely on the use of fully formed characters, letterforms that represent each of the characters that the printer was capable of printing. In addition, most of these printers were limited to monochrome, or sometimes two-color, printing in a single typeface at one time, although bolding and underlining of text could be done by “overstriking”, that is, printing two or more impressions either in the same character position or slightly offset. Impact printers varieties include typewriter-derived printers, teletypewriter-derived printers, daisywheel printers, dot matrix printers, and line printers. Dot-matrix printers remain in common use in businesses where multi-part forms are printed. An overview of impact printing[15] contains a detailed description of many of the technologies used.
Typewriter-derived printers
typeball print element from IBM Selectric-type printer
Main articles: Friden Flexowriter and IBM Selectric typewriter
Several different computer printers were simply computer-controllable versions of existing electric typewriters. The Friden Flexowriter and IBM Selectric-based printers were the most-common examples. The Flexowriter printed with a conventional typebar mechanism while the Selectric used IBM’s well-known “golf ball” printing mechanism. In either case, the letter form then struck a ribbon which was pressed against the paper, printing one character at a time. The maximum speed of the Selectric printer (the faster of the two) was 15.5 characters per second.
Teletypewriter-derived printers
Main article: Teleprinter
The common teleprinter could easily be interfaced with the computer and became very popular except for those computers manufactured by IBM. Some models used a “typebox” that was positioned, in the X- and Y-axes, by a mechanism, and the selected letter form was struck by a hammer. Others used a type cylinder in a similar way as the Selectric typewriters used their type ball. In either case, the letter form then struck a ribbon to print the letterform. Most teleprinters operated at ten characters per second although a few achieved 15 CPS.
Daisy wheel printers
“daisy wheel” print element
Main article: Daisy wheel printer
Daisy wheel printers operate in much the same fashion as a typewriter. A hammer strikes a wheel with petals, the “daisy wheel”, each petal containing a letter form at its tip. The letter form strikes a ribbon of ink, depositing the ink on the page and thus printing a character. By rotating the daisy wheel, different characters are selected for printing. These printers were also referred to as letter-quality printers because they could produce text which was as clear and crisp as a typewriter. The fastest letter-quality printers printed at 30 characters per second.
Dot-matrix printers
Main article: Dot matrix printer
Sample output from 9-pin dot matrix printer (one character expanded to show detail)
The term dot matrix printer is used for impact printers that use a matrix of small pins to transfer ink to the page.[16] The advantage of dot matrix over other impact printers is that they can produce graphical images in addition to text; however the text is generally of poorer quality than impact printers that use letterforms (type).
Dot-matrix printers can be broadly divided into two major classes:
Ballistic wire printers
Stored energy printers
Dot matrix printers can either be character-based or line-based (that is, a single horizontal series of pixels across the page), referring to the configuration of the print head.
In the 1970s and ’80s, dot matrix printers were one of the more common types of printers used for general use, such as for home and small office use. Such printers normally had either 9 or 24 pins on the print head (early 7 pin printers also existed, which did not print descenders). There was a period during the early home computer era when a range of printers were manufactured under many brands such as the Commodore VIC-1525 using the Seikosha Uni-Hammer system. This used a single solenoid with an oblique striker that would be actuated 7 times for each column of 7 vertical pixels while the head was moving at a constant speed. The angle of the striker would align the dots vertically even though the head had moved one dot spacing in the time. The vertical dot position was controlled by a synchronized longitudinally ribbed platen behind the paper that rotated rapidly with a rib moving vertically seven dot spacings in the time it took to print one pixel column.[17] 24-pin print heads were able to print at a higher quality and started to offer additional type styles and were marketed as Near Letter Quality by some vendors. Once the price of inkjet printers dropped to the point where they were competitive with dot matrix printers, dot matrix printers began to fall out of favour for general use.
Some dot matrix printers, such as the NEC P6300, can be upgraded to print in colour. This is achieved through the use of a four-colour ribbon mounted on a mechanism (provided in an upgrade kit that replaces the standard black ribbon mechanism after installation) that raises and lowers the ribbons as needed. Colour graphics are generally printed in four passes at standard resolution, thus slowing down printing considerably. As a result, colour graphics can take up to four times longer to print than standard monochrome graphics, or up to 8-16 times as long at high resolution mode.
Dot matrix printers are still commonly used in low-cost, low-quality applications such as cash registers, or in demanding, very high volume applications like invoice printing. Impact printing, unlike laser printing, allows the pressure of the print head to be applied to a stack of two or more forms to print multi-part documents such as sales invoices and credit card receipts using continuous stationery with carbonless copy paper. It also has security advantages as ink impressed into a paper matrix by force is harder to erase invisibly. Dot-matrix printers were being superseded even as receipt printers after the end of the twentieth century.
Line printers
Main article: Line printer
Line printers print an entire line of text at a time. Four principal designs exist.
Print drum from drum printer
Drum printers, where a horizontally mounted rotating drum carries the entire character set of the printer repeated in each printable character position. The IBM 1132 printer is an example of a drum printer.[18] Drum printers are also found in adding machines and other numeric printers (POS), the dimensions are compact as only a dozen characters need to be supported.[19]
IBM 1403 line printer
Chain or train printers, where the character set is arranged multiple times around a linked chain or a set of character slugs in a track traveling horizontally past the print line. The IBM 1403 is perhaps the most popular and comes in both chain and train varieties. The band printer is a later variant where the characters are embossed on a flexible steel band. The LP27 from Digital Equipment Corporation is a band printer.
Bar printers, where the character set is attached to a solid bar that moves horizontally along the print line, such as the IBM 1443.[20]
A fourth design, used mainly on very early printers such as the IBM 402, features independent type bars, one for each printable position. Each bar contains the character set to be printed. The bars move vertically to position the character to be printed in front of the print hammer.[21]
In each case, to print a line, precisely timed hammers strike against the back of the paper at the exact moment that the correct character to be printed is passing in front of the paper. The paper presses forward against a ribbon which then presses against the character form and the impression of the character form is printed onto the paper. Each system could have slight timing issues, which could cause minor misalignment of the resulting printed characters. For drum or typebar printers, this appeared as vertical misalignment, with characters being printed slightly above or below the rest of the line. In chain or bar printers, the misalignment was horizontal, with printed characters being crowded closer together or farther apart. This was much less noticeable to human vision than vertical misalignment, where characters seemed to bounce up and down in the line, so they were considered as higher quality print.
Comb printers, also called line matrix printers, represent the fifth major design. These printers are a hybrid of dot matrix printing and line printing. In these printers, a comb of hammers prints a portion of a row of pixels at one time, such as every eighth pixel. By shifting the comb back and forth slightly, the entire pixel row can be printed, continuing the example, in just eight cycles. The paper then advances, and the next pixel row is printed. Because far less motion is involved than in a conventional dot matrix printer, these printers are very fast compared to dot matrix printers and are competitive in speed with formed-character line printers while also being able to print dot matrix graphics. The Printronix P7000 series of line matrix printers are still manufactured as of 2013.
Line printers are the fastest of all impact printers and are used for bulk printing in large computer centres. A line printer can print at 1100 lines per minute or faster, frequently printing pages more rapidly than many current laser printers. On the other hand, the mechanical components of line printers operate with tight tolerances and require regular preventive maintenance (PM) to produce a top quality print. They are virtually never used with personal computers and have now been replaced by high-speed laser printers. The legacy of line printers lives on in many operating systems, which use the abbreviations “lp”, “lpr”, or “LPT” to refer to printers.
Liquid ink electrostatic printers
Liquid ink electrostatic printers use a chemical coated paper, which is charged by the print head according to the image of the document.[22] The paper is passed near a pool of liquid ink with the opposite charge. The charged areas of the paper attract the ink and thus form the image. This process was developed from the process of electrostatic copying.[23] Color reproduction is very accurate, and because there is no heating the scale distortion is less than ±0.1%. (All laser printers have an accuracy of ±1%.)
Worldwide, most survey offices used this printer before color inkjet plotters become popular. Liquid ink electrostatic printers were mostly available in 36 to 54 inches (910 to 1,370 mm) width and also 6 color printing. These were also used to print large billboards. It was first introduced by Versatec, which was later bought by Xerox. 3M also used to make these printers.[24]
Plotters
Main article: Plotter
A Calcomp 565 drum plotter
Pen-based plotters were an alternate printing technology once common in engineering and architectural firms. Pen-based plotters rely on contact with the paper (but not impact, per se) and special purpose pens that are mechanically run over the paper to create text and images. Since the pens output continuous lines, they were able to produce technical drawings of higher resolution than was achievable with dot-matrix technology.[25] Some plotters used roll-fed paper, and therefore had a minimal restriction on the size of the output in one dimension. These plotters were capable of producing quite sizable drawings.
Other printers
A number of other sorts of printers are important for historical reasons, or for special purpose uses.
Digital minilab (photographic paper)
Electrolytic printers
Spark printer
Barcode printer multiple technologies, including: thermal printing, inkjet printing, and laser printing barcodes
Billboard / sign paint spray printers
Laser etching (product packaging) industrial printers
Microsphere (special paper)
Attributes
Connectivity
Printers can be connected to computers in many ways: directly by a dedicated data cable such as the USB, through a short-range radio like Bluetooth, a local area network using cables (such as the Ethernet) or radio (such as WiFi), or on a standalone basis without a computer, using a memory card or other portable data storage device.
More than half of all printers sold at U.S. retail in 2010 were wireless-capable, but nearly three-quarters of consumers who have access to those printers weren’t taking advantage of the increased access to print from multiple devices according to the new Wireless Printing Study.
Printer control languages
Most printers other than line printers accept control characters or unique character sequences to control various printer functions. These may range from shifting from lower to upper case or from black to red ribbon on typewriter printers to switching fonts and changing character sizes and colors on raster printers. Early printer controls were not standardized, with each manufacturer’s equipment having its own set. The IBM Personal Printer Data Stream (PPDS) became a commonly used command set for dot-matrix printers.
Today, most printers accept one or more page description languages (PDLs). Laser printers with greater processing power frequently offer support for variants of Hewlett-Packard’s Printer Command Language (PCL), PostScript or XML Paper Specification. Most inkjet devices support manufacturer proprietary PDLs such as ESC/P. The diversity in mobile platforms have led to various standardization efforts around device PDLs such as the Printer Working Group (PWG’s) PWG Raster.
Printing speed
The speed of early printers was measured in units of characters per minute (cpm) for character printers, or lines per minute (lpm) for line printers. Modern printers are measured in pages per minute (ppm). These measures are used primarily as a marketing tool, and are not as well standardised as toner yields. Usually pages per minute refers to sparse monochrome office documents, rather than dense pictures which usually print much more slowly, especially colour images. Speeds in ppm usually apply to A4 paper in most countries in the world, and letter paper size, about 6% shorter, in North America.
Printing mode
The data received by a printer may be:
A string of characters
A bitmapped image
A vector image
A computer program written in a page description language, such as PCL or PostScript
Some printers can process all four types of data, others not.
Character printers, such as daisy wheel printers, can handle only plain text data or rather simple point plots.
Pen plotters typically process vector images. Inkjet based plotters can adequately reproduce all four.
Modern printing technology, such as laser printers and inkjet printers, can adequately reproduce all four. This is especially true of printers equipped with support for PCL or PostScript, which includes the vast majority of printers produced today.
Today it is possible to print everything (even plain text) by sending ready bitmapped images to the printer. This allows better control over formatting, especially among machines from different vendors. Many printer drivers do not use the text mode at all, even if the printer is capable of it.[citation needed]
Monochrome, colour and photo printers
A monochrome printer can only produce monochrome images, with only shades of a single colour. Most printers can produce only two colors, black (ink) and white (no ink). With half-tonning techniques, however, such a printer can produce acceptable grey-scale images too
A colour printer can produce images of multiple colours. A photo printer is a colour printer that can produce images that mimic the colour range (gamut) and resolution of prints made from photographic film.
Page yield
The page yield is number of pages that can be printed from a toner cartridge or ink cartridge—before the cartridge needs to be refilled or replaced. The actual number of pages yielded by a specific cartridge depends on a number of factors.[26]
For a fair comparison, many laser printer manufacturers use the ISO/IEC 19752 process to measure the toner cartridge yield.[27][28]
Economics
In order to fairly compare operating expenses of printers with a relatively small ink cartridge to printers with a larger, more expensive toner cartridge that typically holds more toner and so prints more pages before the cartridge needs to be replaced, many people prefer to estimate operating expenses in terms of cost per page (CPP).[27]
Retailers often apply the “razor and blades” model: a company may sell a printer at cost and make profits on the ink cartridge, paper, or some other replacement part. This has caused legal disputes regarding the right of companies other than the printer manufacturer to sell compatible ink cartridges. To protect their business model, several manufacturers invest heavily in developing new cartridge technology and patenting it.
Other manufacturers, in reaction to the challenges from using this business model, choose to make more money on printers and less on ink, promoting the latter through their advertising campaigns. Finally, this generates two clearly different proposals: “cheap printer – expensive ink” or “expensive printer – cheap ink”. Ultimately, the consumer decision depends on their reference interest rate or their time preference. From an economics viewpoint, there is a clear trade-off between cost per copy and cost of the printer.
Printer steganography
An illustration showing small yellow tracking dots on white paper, generated by a color laser printer
Main article: Printer steganography
Printer steganography is a type of steganography – “hiding data within data”[29] – produced by color printers, including Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, IBM, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Lanier, Lexmark, Ricoh, Toshiba and Xerox[30] brand color laser printers, where tiny yellow dots are added to each page. The dots are barely visible and contain encoded printer serial numbers, as well as date and time stamps.
Best printers at a glance
HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e
HP Neverstop Laser 1001nw
HP Tango X
Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4830
Brother HL-3170CDW
Canon Pixma iP8720
Epson EcoTank ET-3760
Brother MFC-L2750DW
HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e
HP’s OfficeJet Pro 9025e is an excellent MFP for your office.
Why should you buy this? It’s a solid all-around printer that’s great for documents and photos.
Who is the HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e for? Homes and offices with moderate printing needs.
HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e
HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e
A great everyday printer.
$380 FROM OFFICE DEPOT
Why we picked the HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e:
The prior generation HP OfficeJet Pro 9015 was a solid printer, and HP has made some improvements to make it an even better color inkjet this year with the OfficeJet Pro 9025e. Though the price has increased jumping to the most current model, you’re getting faster print speeds — at up to 24 pages per minute on black-and-white prints — along with 1,200 dpi scans and an automatic document feeder with a tray capacity of 35 pages for quick scans and copies. The tray loader can handle up to 250 sheets of paper, and the printer can output to a variety of formats and paper sizes, including envelopes, cards, labels, and more. And with an output of up to 4800 x 1200 resolution for color jobs, this printer is versatile enough to handle photo printing as well.
With the OfficeJet Pro 9025e, HP includes six months of its Instant Ink subscription service, which monitors how much ink you have in your cartridge and sends you replacements when you’re running low. While it may not be worth it to subscribe if you’re not churning out regular print jobs, it’s a nice feature for small offices with limited space in supply closets. Other features include Wi-Fi printing, a companion app to monitor print status, and support for AirPrint. HP also sells XL cartridges, which will help reduce printing costs in the long term. This printer averages about 3.3 cents per page, and it can also handle two-sided duplex printing to help reduce your paper cost.
HP Neverstop Laser 1001nw
HP’s Neverstop Laser 1001nw delivers economical printing.
Why should you buy this? The HP Neverstop Laser 1001nw delivers fast print speeds and exceptionally affordable print costs.
Who is the HP Neverstop Laser 1001nw for? Home and small office users looking for economical monochrome printing.
Why we picked the HP Neverstop Laser 1001nw:
HP Neverstop Laser 1001nw
HP Neverstop Laser 1001nw
$300 FROM HP
$300 FROM AMAZON
HP’s Neverstop Laser 1001nw might not come with all the bells and whistles or fancy designs as some other printers on our list, but it’s designed to be an affordable workhorse for homes, home offices, and small businesses. This printer doesn’t come with a scanner or color capabilities, but it is a fast printer that can churn out documents at 21 pages per minute. The monochrome printing limits this printer to text-based jobs, like documents, homework, PDFs, and invoices rather than photos and craft projects. If you find yourself primarily printing black-and-white jobs, this printer’s superpower is its affordable long-term cost. With the cost per print of roughly $0.01 per page, this printer is designed to be an affordable workhorse rendering crisp text with its laser printing technology.
Downsides include a relatively small paper tray at 150 sheets and duplex printing that’s manual rather than automatic. Still, the printer’s affordable starting price and economical print costs make it a winner for those on a budget. And similar to the idea of refillable tanks for inkjet printing, HP also created a cost-effective and environmentally friendly reloadable toner kit that you can purchase to refill, rather than replace, the toner cartridge on your Neverstop Laser. Mobile printing, AirPrint, and wireless printing are all supported, and you can use the HP Smart mobile app to gain more control out of the NeverStop Laser 1001nw.
HP Tango X
HP’s Tango X blends in with your home decor with its linen cover.
Ted Needleman/Digital Trends
Why should you buy this? It’s tiny, understated, and still produces great quality prints.
Who is the HP Tango X? Home users who need a discrete printer to blend in with the decor.
HP Tango X Printer
HP Tango X Printer
A printer that blends into the furniture.
$240 FROM WALMART
$240 FROM APPLE
Why we picked the HP Tango X:
For the average home, dorm or even business, printing needs have never been rarer. Everyone has gone digital and PDFs can easily be signed on your computer … but some printing is still required out of necessity. For those jobs, the Tango X steps in. This tiny printer has no screen and barely any buttons — it does everything by app and voice command, offering compatibility with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana — and a fancy linen cover that makes it less obtrusive in your home.
The printer also has great color accuracy for printing photos, and optional high-yield cartridges for greater flexibility, depending on what you want to print. However, there’s no room on this compact model for an automatic document feeder and it won’t exactly win any awards for speed. However, it’s safe to say that the HP Tango X represents the future of printing, and may be perfect for you right now.
Read our full HP Tango X review
Epson WorkForce Pro EC-4030
This Epson WorkForce printer is an office workhorse.
Why should you buy this? It’s a big MFP that does everything and does it well.
Who is the Epson WorkForce Pro EC-4030 for? Workgroups and small office users who need a fast printer.
Epson WorkForce EC-4030
Epson WorkForce EC-4030
$199 FROM B&H PHOTO VIDEO
Why we picked the Epson WorkForce Pro EC-4030:
Epson’s power Workforce all-in-one printer is a boon for offices that still need a reliable printing solution that can handle whatever they throw at it. It’s designed to be highly accurate and uses technology to minimize heat so the printer lasts as long as possible while still handling frequent work.
It’s also speedy for its size: The printer has a 20 black-and-white ppm rating for printing and copying, and an ADF makes scans and copies speedy. The Epson WorkForce Pro EC-4030 also supports faxing for the rare times when you need to use that feature. The printer also sports all the reliable Epson features we love, including a solid touchscreen for controls, app management for setup, built-in wireless support for the office network, and more.
Brother HL-3170CDW
This Brother printer is all about the printing as it lacks a scanning tray.
Why should you buy this? It’s a great laser printer without any of the extraneous features.
Who is the Brother HL-3170CDW Printer for? Office users who need a color laser printer.
Brother HL-3170CDW
Brother HL-3170CDW
This Brother printer is sleek, simple, and quick.
$817 FROM AMAZON
$899 FROM WALMART
Why we picked the Brother HL-3170CDW:
If you want a laser printer for your home or office, the Brother HL-3170CDW is a safe bet, a compact device that you can get at an affordable price. This printer can blaze through jobs at a rate of 23ppm, and it holds 250 sheets of paper. Both of these factors make it a good choice for offices, where people may need to print out a lot of documents without waiting for someone else’s job to finish.
The printer isn’t just fast; it also supports duplex printing for double-sided pages.
Setting up the Brother HL-3170CDW is a cinch, and in addition to its Ethernet and USB 2.0 connections, it also supports wireless printing; you can connect with Android and Apple devices, among others.
Canon Pixma iP8720
Canon’s Pixma delivers sharp photo printing capabilities.
Why should you buy this? It’s a versatile printer that’s also great for photos.
Who is the Canon Pixma iP8720 for? Photographers and crafters.
Canon Pixma IP8720
Canon Pixma IP8720
$388 FROM AMAZON
$280 FROM CANON
Why we picked the Canon Pixma iP8720:
Canon’s Pixma iP8720 can print, scan, and make copies in a sleek, compact package that will look good on a shelf or a desk when closed with its piano black case, though other color options are also available. With its stand-out quality for photo printing, this is a great companion for a budding photographer, scrapbooker, or crafter at home. The company’s ChromaLife ink technology helps ensure that printed borderless photos benefit from archival quality that will last at least 100 years without fading, and it supports a high 9600 x 2400 dpi resolution for ultra-high-detail images.
Home users will appreciate the built-in flatbed scanner at the top for archiving purposes, and this printer also offers complete wireless printing options via app and services like AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, NFC, Canon Print, and so on. We were also very impressed with the printer’s color accuracy when combined with Canon photo paper. While small enough to fit in many different locations, the printer’s biggest downside is that there is no touchscreen for additional controls and easy access to settings.
Epson EcoTank ET-3760
Epson’s EcoTank can help you save on ink costs with refillable ink tanks.
Why should you buy this? You have moderate printing needs and don’t want to spend a fortune on ink.
Who is the Epson EcoTank ET-3760 for? Small office users with limited ink budgets.
Epson EcoTank ET-3760
Epson EcoTank ET-3760
An excellent option for saving on ink.
$490 FROM AMAZON
$400 FROM OFFICE DEPOT
Why we picked the Epson EcoTank ET-3760:
The EcoTank offers an alternative printer model that could be exactly what you’re looking for: Instead of replacing ink cartridges, this printer uses compartments that you fill up with ink using the included bottles. It’s less expensive than using ink cartridges, and an ideal solution if you don’t print color often but never want to run out of a cartridge at an inopportune time. The included bottles alone will keep a printer going for two years even with regular work.
The all-in-one printer isn’t just about savings, though: It also offers a 15ppm speed for black-and-white, and an 8ppm speed for color. There’s a 250-sheet storage tray, plus a 30-page auto document feeder for scanning and similar tasks. Automatic two-sided printing is supported as well. It even works with Alexa, so you can give it voice commands to help prepare for a printing job.
The combination of features on the Epson EcoTank ET-3760 makes it ideal for a small business or home that may only have intermittent but important printing projects and wants to avoid the cycle of endlessly buying ink cartridges even when they aren’t technically needed.
Brother MFC-L2750DW
Brother’s fast printer is great for offices with higher print volume.
Why should you buy this? It has all the features of an office printer, in a home printer footprint.
Who is the Brother MFCL2750DW for? Office users who need a fast printer.
Brother MFC-L2750DW
Brother MFC-L2750DW
A great update to Brother’s sturdy printer.
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Why we picked the Brother MFCL2750DW:
Brother’s latest update to this solid printer helped maximize speeds, making it an ideal option for a busy home or office where you want printing jobs done fast. It can reach 36ppm for black-and-white printing, and is also speedy at copying and facing for maximum productivity.
It also features single-pass two-sided printing for even more efficiency, and the automatic document feeder holds 50 sheets, making it one of the best options on our list for larger scanning projects and similar tasks. All the wireless connectivity you could want is included here, including NFC touch-t0-connect for fast printing, support for printing from cloud services like Dropbox, OneNote, and Google Drive, as well as the ability to easily connect to your desktop, laptop, and other devices.
Unless you do larger printing projects from home, the Brother MFC-L2750DW may be a little too much of a workhouse printer for your needs. It’s a perfect fit for a lobby or front office where speedy printing can be a big advantage but a full laser printer isn’t really needed.
Research and buying tips
Which printer has the cheapest ink?
What printer has the longest-lasting ink cartridges?
What printer is the cheapest to operate?
Which printer brand is best?
What pages per minute (PPM) is good for a printer?
Which printer has the cheapest ink?
Affordable ink depends on several different factors: How much the cartridges cost upfront, how much ink the printer uses on average, and how long the cartridges last. Ultimately, it’s best if you take a look at specific models and check how much the cartridges are, and how long they appear to last (usually measured in page yield). Even within the same brand, ink costs can vary considerably based on the printing machine.
In general, you should look for printers that offer a high page yield for their cartridges, and cartridges that are more affordable compared to alternatives. These two stats combined can tell you a lot. Inkjet printers with their liquid ink cartridges tend to cost more over time than laser printers with their large toner cartridges. All our top-brand picks, like Canon, HP, and Epson, tend to be quite efficient. Our HP picks, in particular, might be a good choice if you want to save money on ink (we were a little disappointed in our Canon Pixma model’s ink performance, however). If you need to run larger print jobs, consider a printer with refillable ink tanks. While they may require a higher initial investment, the tank refills will lead to a cheaper per-page print cost and will be more environmentally friendly. If paper use is a concern, choose a printer that supports automatic duplex, or two-sided, printing.
What printer has the longest-lasting ink cartridges?
Laser printers with their toner cartridges have high initial costs for replacing toner, but toner lasts longer than almost any other printer ink type. However, if you want a home or small business printer, then a laser printer probably isn’t on your list. In that case, we suggest you take a look at our top HP OfficeJet pick. HP offers very high-quality ink cartridges for its OfficeJet models, and they’ll last longer than most alternatives. If you need to stretch your budget, seek out a printer with larger cartridges or XL cartridges if those are available from your manufacturer. These larger cartridges generally will cost more upfront but will reduce the cost per page in the long run as they will last longer.
What printer is the cheapest to operate?
We have already established that, aside from the high initial costs, laser printers tend to be more affordable in the long run because they are so cheap to operate. However, let’s say that you’re looking only at inkjet printers: What should you look for?
Even if you are only printing office documents, you’ll want to stick with the established brands that make durable, dependable printers. We’re talking about Epson Workforce models, HP Officejet printers, and similar brand families. Multi-function printers, or MFPs, will offer more robust capabilities, including scanning, faxing, and copying.
We’ve found some of the best cheap printers, but you might also want to check out these laser printer deals.
Which printer brand is best?
Everyone’s got a favorite brand, but it’s no accident that names like Canon and HP regularly pop up. These brands produce quality machines and offer something for every printing need, which means you’ll be able to find something in your price range. Brands like Brother aren’t quite as ubiquitous, but they also manufacture high-quality printers worth considering. Epson also is making some excellent photo-quality home printers these days, a departure from the enterprise-level printers the company has previously manufactured.
How many pages per minute (ppm) is good for a printer?
You shouldn’t look at printer speed as much as you should consider its output quality, but you can usually find how fast a printer works by checking out its specs. Anything above about 20 ppm for black and white is good for the average inkjet printer. You can usually bump this number up to about 20 ppm if you’re looking at a laser printer. Printers with 40 ppm aren’t as common, and it’s improbable that you’d need to see this kind of yield for a home printer.
- BOBST
Introduction:
We are one of the world’s leading suppliers of substrate processing, printing and converting equipment and services for the label, flexible packaging, folding carton and corrugated board industries. Founded in 1890 by Joseph Bobst in Lausanne, Switzerland, BOBST has a presence in more than 50 countries, runs 19 production facilities in 11 countries and employs more than 5 600 people around the world. The firm recorded a consolidated turnover of CHF 1.372 billion for the year ended December 31, 2020.
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Headquarter: Switzerland
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Cutting edge technology and high manufacturing standards ensure premium print quality and long-lasting value. With their varied repeat lengths and medium to super-wide printing widths, BOBST CI flexo presses meet the requirements of the most demanding package printing applications
Main Products:
digital inkjet printing
Digital Flexo Printing Machine
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CI Flexo Printing Machine
inline flexo printing machine
Inline Flexo Printing Machine
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- W&H
w&h ci flexo printing machine
Introduction:
As the inventor of the CI flexo press, W&H stands for innovation and trailblazing technologies in modern flexography. Our CI flexo presses are designed for a wide range of applications offering the highest print quality and output. Our portfolio of MIRAFLEX, NOVOFLEX and VISTAFLEX offers unique solutions for all of our customer’s needs in flexible packaging printing. During the development of our latest line-up of CI flexo presses, we focused on productivity, efficiency and interconnectivity in a production network. We call that Packaging 4.0.
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Headquarter: Germany
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With W&H Process Consulting, RKW reduces the set-up times of its flexo press by up to 50%.
Our long-standing customer RKW is one of the world‘s leading manufacturers of film solutions and the market leader for hygiene and agricultural films, films for the beverage industry, and packaging for powdery goods.
Main Products:
forest
CI Flexo Presses
northern lights
Stack-Type Flexo Presses
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northern lights
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- KYMC
ci flexo printing machine
Introduction:
Since being founded in 1968, KYMC has been producing a new generation of printing and converting equipment for the global market. To date, KYMC has served customers in more than 90 countries and has installed more than 2,800 devices. Our rich experiences and innovative DNA helped us to win over the trust and support of global customers in the flexible packaging industry.
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Headquarter: Taiwan, China
Main Products:
ci flexo
CI Flexo Printing Machine
stack flexo
Stack Flexo Printing Machine
inline flexo printing machine
Inline Flexo Printing Machine
flexo gravure printing machine
Flexo Gravure Printing Machine
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- SRM
srm ci flexo printing machine
Introduction:
SRM Machinery Company is one of the largest flexo printing machine manufacturers and suppliers based in China, our machine is used in label, flexible packaging, folding carton and corrugated board industries. Our factory is located in the industrial zone of Weifang over 51168 square meters, with more than 150 Staff members and the latest technologies in all stages of production.
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Headquarter: China
Main Products:
disposable paper cup printing machine
Disposable Paper Cup Printing Machine
servo paper cup printing machine
Servo Paper Cup Printing Machine
label flexo printing machine
Label Flexo Printing Machine
narrow web flexo printing machine
Narrow Web Flexo Press
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- Mark Andy
mark andy ci flexo printing machine
Introduction:
Mark Andy is a pioneer of the graphic arts and printing industry. As the world’s leading manufacturer of narrow- and mid-web printing and finishing equipment, we supply leading global brands, including Mark Andy and Presstek printing presses, Rotoflex finishing solutions, as well as a complete line of Mark Andy Print Products consumables and pressroom supplies. All products are backed by the largest customer support team in the industry, minimizing downtime and helping our customers be profitable, efficient and at the forefront of innovation.
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Headquarter: USA
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performance series
Performance Series
evolution series e5
Evolution Series E5
220
220
830
830
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- UTECO
uteco ci flexo printing machine
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We are Italy’s leading manufacturer of bespoke printers and converting machines, catering to a wide range of industry needs.
Uteco flexographic machines are the best expression of years of research committed to finding innovative solutions addressed to the most various printing demands.
We provide seven flexo presses lines. With these, we are able to meet different printing run needs: from the very short, with the compact machines Onyx XS, to the bigger ones, with Diamond HP and Crystal machines. We cover a wide variety of industries and end-use sectors – from flexible packaging for pharmaceuticals to industrial bags – focusing in particular on sustainable and energy saving printing processes, and on the operators’ safety.
Our flexographic presses have highly flexible standard configurations which include Uteco patented technologies and innovative systems, designed to guarantee high quality standards, ergonomics and ease of use, efficiency with no waste.
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Headquarter: Italy
Main Products:
flexographic printing
Flexographic Printing
sil flexographic printing
SIL Flexographic Printing
rotogravure printing
Rotogravure Printing
digital printing
Digital Flexo Printing Machine
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- COMEXI
srm ci flexo printing machine
Introduction:
With more than 60 years of experience in the sector, we offer the market a high level of technological innovation and a specialized and localized technical service. Flexographic printing is our core business, and with the passage of time, we have become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of flexographic presses with a central drum for short, medium and long runs, and which adapt to the market’s most demanding requirements.
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Headquarter: Spain
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flexo printing machine
Flexo Printing Machine
flexo printing machine
Offset Printing Machine
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- SAHIL GRAPHICS
sahil graphics ci flexo printing machine
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Creating the right impression for the print is as important as the matter itself. Dedicating ourselves to the world of Printing & Bag Making, we make the honest endeavor to infuse life and soul into manufacturing and supplying Offset printing machines, flexo roll to roll printing machines, Non Woven Bag Making Machines, Paper Bag Making Machines, Paper Cup Forming Machines, Paper Straw Making Machines.
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Headquarter: India
Main Products:
stack type four colour
Stack type Four Colour
non woven roll to roll
Non Woven Roll to Roll
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- Innovative
innovative ci flexo printing machine
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Innovative Flexotech Pvt Ltd, an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, has a straightforward and clearly defined strategy for quality control guides line in its daily actions. Stringent quality control is being applied right from raw material is inspected and tested against relevant quality plan till manufacturing, testing and setting of the final products. Proven and successful machine for almost last two decades has won the customer trust for its finest product.
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Headquarter: India
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- DH
srm ci flexo printing machine
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Initially established in 1996, DH Graphic Technology Inc. (hereinafter referred to as DH) is a high-tech enterprise engaged in R & D, manufacture, sale and after-sale of printing machine and after-printing equipment.
DH has a strong innovative capacity. Now it has more than 40 patents and still, several others enter into application procedure. DH has successfully launched DH-Kirin and DH-ROC series inline type flexographic printing machine, DH-OFEM CI flexographic printing machine. Products cover printing applications like label printing, paper packaging printing and flexible packaging.
In 2002, DH began to step into the international market. DH attends Drupa International Printing Expo and Label ExpoEurope several times. Until now, our products have been sold to Europe, South and North America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, Middle East, Taiwan and other countries and districts.
Headquarter: China
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