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Monochrome Laser
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Monochrome Laser Printers
 Laser
printers offer two basic options. There are the choice of
slightly more traditional monochrome model, or the bit pricey but
revolutionary color laser printer. Whether you dedicated
to the black and white
alternative or favor the color
laser printer, we
would like to arm you with all the information you'll need to
help you decide on the right Laser printer.
Every company has unique needs
and distinct challenges. Monochrome Laser Printers are
faster and better equipped than ever to serve as the heart of a
busy office.
Why
monochrome?
If you'll need a printer that can
handle even larger amounts of black and white text printing
jobs and deliver it in the fraction of the time that Inkjets
do, the monochrome laser printer will be your ultimate choice.
Monochrome (or black&white)
laser printers are the
familiar workhorse
of the desktops in homes and busy offices alike, which
can provide you with high quality and razor-sharp printouts at a
relatively low cost. So when continuous, high-volume black and
white printing is called for, the monochrome laser printer is
undoubtedly the best choice.
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Monochrome laser printers
are faster, bring much better text quality and are less
expensive to maintain than ink-jet printers.
Unlike with inkjet printers, where
the ink is wet, the toner or ink in a laser printer is dry. However
laser toner/drum cartridges
are a bit more expensive
than Inkjets ($60- $150),
and their cost during the printers life
will often far exceed the unit's initial purchase price,
you will be able to print a greater number of pages (between
4000 and 10,000 pages)
from a single
laser toner cartridge!
As a result, the cost per page is
much less than with
ink-jet cartridges,
which can save you hundreds of dollars in the long term.
The length of time the
ink
cartridge
lasts will vary on the quality of the toner it contains and
the number of prints you
create with your laser printer. One
laser printed page costs about 7
times less than one Inkjet printed page.
Monochrome Laser printers can hold more paper and some of
them even allow you to easily attach an extra tray for different
paper sizes.
 A Monochrome laser printer can
store from 150 sheets in a single tray and up to 800
sheets with multiple trays. You can adjust the trays to
varying widths for well-organized paper handling.
If your printer supports only
150 sheets of paper, you may waste valuable time reloading paper
bins. Try to look for a Laser printer with additional bins and
trays, which will increase the paper capacity.
The automatic paper feeder is
a must have feature, which
automatically loads multi-page documents
and moves it through the printer allowing hands-free
printing.
Laser printers
generally have more features and options than inkjets have.
The
informative control
panel can frequently
be found in many
types of printers
and in some monochrome Laser Printers
alike. It will demonstrate text messages and allows you to
scroll through configuration menus and modify preferences
without using the driver software. In addition
to providing more control, it
may include a numeric keypad for dialing.
Monochrome
multifunction laser
printers continue to offer a good range of office-oriented
features and match the performance of single-function printers.
Monochrome (black
ink) laser printers can offer fast, high-quality text printing
for a reasonable price. They also tend to offer long-term
savings in the cost of toner (over the cost of ink cartridges
for inkjet printers).
Here are reviews of
the top 5 latest monochrome laser printers:
1) The Dell Laser Printer 1100
Dell made headlines
when it introduced its new Laser Printer 1100 monochrome laser
printer for $99, the first laser printer to be available for
such an incredibly low price. Two journals that managed to
obtain printers, however, report that while the Laser Printer
1100 is certainly basic, it performs quite well for its price,
and is suitable for students and home offices.
2) The Brother HL-5140 Laser
Printer
The Brother HL-5140
monochrome laser printer is a solid, well-built device for home
and small businesses. It has been lauded for its speed and
dependability; its also popular for its high quality text and
expandability.
3) The HP LaserJet 1300
The HP LaserJet 1300
is a monochrome laser printer that is geared for the home and
small office: It offers fast printing, good print quality, and
enough expandability (additional 250-sheet paper tray, memory,
or a networking card) to grow with the business.
4) The Minolta-QMS PagePro
1250W
The Minolta-QMS
PagePro 1250W personal laser printer offers fine print quality -
better than you'll get with more expensive inkjet printers - and
much better speeds.
5) The Samsung ML-1740 Laser
Printer
Sometimes, you don't
want the latest bleeding edge device -- you simply want
something that will do a good job for a good price. The Samsung
USB and parallel connectivity produce solid text printing for
home offices at a low price.
TIP: If you are
looking for a monochrome laser, try to acquire a model that
prints at a
resolution of at least 600 by 600 dots per inch,
able to process around 9 or more pages per minute, and holds at
least 150 or more sheets of paper.
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