Portable inkjet printers are one of the latest releases in the printer industry. Because of man’s need to be constantly on the move, printer companies decided to incorporate portability into useful machines such as printers. Printers have a lot of uses for different people. Depending on their profession, some of them may rely a lot on printers. For professions such as traveling salesmen and photographers, they need to have access to printers in order to do their job. So what do portable inkjet printers offer that makes people want to buy them? In these articles, we will discuss what most portable printers can offer.
The earliest portable inkjet printers offer the same feature of printing while being portable. However, these printers had the worst speeds. Early portable printers printed at speeds less than 5 pages per minute. With the advancement of the electronic industry, these speeds slowly became faster. The fastest speed for a portable inkjet printer is 22ppm. The current holder of this speed is HP’s OfficeJet H470 mobile printer series.
Portable printers are now faster than ever. However, this is not the only deciding factor for buying portable printers. The print quality should also be at the top. In terms of resolution, portable inkjet printers are capable of printing as high as 9600 x 2400 dpi resolutions. At these resolutions, portable inkjet printers are able to produce high quality pictures. Some portable printers even specialize in making pictures that they are known as portable photo printers. Most of them print up to a maximum size of 4” x 6”, a standard size among pictures. A great thing about these photo printers is they are equipped with an LCD display that allows you to view your pictures before they are printed.
Now you have speed and quality. Both features should be enough for people with portable lifestyles to buy such printers. However, because of competition among printer companies, they decide to put in additional features that make these printers more desirable. This became an advantage to all customers. Portable printers became embedded with additional features such as wireless connectivity. With a Bluetooth-enabled device, you can print pictures and documents without any need for a computer. Traditional methods involve you using a computer that is connected to a printer. In the case of new portable printers, you have the option to do away with the computer.
By making machines portable, manufacturers usually decrease the size of the components. With the decreasing size of electronics, most machines are getting smaller along the years. However, in the case of portable printers, they don’t just get small. Their portability is attributed to the fact that they can be operated even without connecting them to an electrical outlet. Most portable printers today have internal batteries similar to other mobile gadgets. On a fully charged battery, portable printers can print as much as 480 pages.
Speed, quality, wireless connectivity and portability. These are the features that make portable inkjet printers a great addition to your portable gadgets along with your laptop, PDAs and mobile phones.
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