The best compact printers on the market today offer function and affordability in one. Compact covers small desktop printers to even smaller portable printers.
Compact Portable Models
Canon PIXMA iP100 Mobile Photo Printer is one of the most popular portables on the market and is as compact as it gets. This printer is great for high quality pictures that look like they came straight from the lab. It is entirely portable, and it can print pictures at 9600 x 2400 dots per inch.
If you need color photos, this unit can print up to 14 pages a minute. That number bumps up to 20 ppm when it comes to black documents. This printer is capable of IrDA and PictBridge, allowing you to print your pictures from your cell phone or camera. It is only 12.7 inches wide and a mere 2.4 inches tall, making it a convenient device to take with you at all times.
You can find this model online for less than $190 but you need to buy the battery separately. The Canon LK-62 Printer Portable Kit Battery & Attachment will be a further $90 and if you want Bluetooth wireless printing you will need to add the Canon BU-30 Bluetooth Adapter for around $50.
Of course you may not need it to be portable and you may not require Bluetooth, which if this was the case then for under $190 you have a great compact printer.
For less cost you can consider the HP Officejet 100 Mobile Printer which doesn’t match the Canon iP100 for print quality with a lower resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi color but this is a great buy as it comes supplied with battery and Bluetooth capability. The price tag at under $225, which makes it a very good affordable compact portable printer for the money.
It’s a very slim and stylish little printer with a height of only 3.3 inches and 13.7 inches wide. If your using it on the desktop without the battery then the depth is a mere 6.9 inches and with the battery 7.8 inches and only weighing 5.5 lbs with the battery.
Compact Photo Printers
This little printer enables you to make CD labels and print photographs without using a computer by viewing in the 3.6 inch LCD photoviewer. The Epson PictureMate Zoom (PM290) Photo Lab Printer (Silver) is a photo printer that is compact.
You can resize, crop, or remove red eye from your photos, and you can get them printed in less than 40 seconds. This printer works well for all brands of digital cameras, and it is highly affordable at under $220.
HP PhotoSmart A646 Compact Photo Printer
The HP Photosmart A646 printer has over 300 creative options to choose from if you want to edit your photos, and its Energy Star tested to work well for the environments. You can print directly from your flash drives, memory cards or cameras. You can wirelessly connect to it via Bluetooth, and your prints will come out as fast as 28 seconds. It has a 3.45-inch touch screen, and its tray can hold up to 20 sheets of paper. It is incredibly lightweight, and you can bring it with you wherever you go with dimensions of 4.6 x 9.9 x 5.3 inches and weighing 3.4 pounds.
Compact Laser Printer
Samsung have many compact printers in there range and the Samsung CLP-315W Color Laser Printer is a laser printer which would fit easily on your desk. It’s a wireless network ready, quiet compact printer. It will print black documents at 17ppm and up to 4ppm color with first page out in 26 seconds.
It has a duty cycle of 20,000 pages, 2 sided manual printing and an input capacity of 150 sheets. Priced at around $200, and with many other compact printers in the Samsung range, they make a lot of small printers.
Inkjet Compact for the Desktop
A nice little compact printer is the Canon MP280 All-in-one Printer which is a fairly small 13.2 x 17.8 x 6 inches and weighing just 12.1 pounds. It’s an all in one that can print, scan and copy and can deliver a good quality print with a 4800 x 1200 dpi color resolution. I pick this little one out for its cost at under $40. An incredible price considering it’s an all in one. It uses Auto Photo Fix II software for automatic picture enhancement.
Size Doesn’t Matter
You possibly think that a smaller size printer cannot have as much function and features. This is not always so as these days many manufacturers are able to pack a lot of features and functions into small size printers knowing that it’s a common requirement especially for home users.
All manufacturers’ websites give you specs that include the size and as small sizes are a requirement these days you find much more choices in compact size printers these days. For small size laser printers then take a look at Samsung who have many small choices and Brother are good for multi functions in the smallest sizes.
Measure the space you have for your printer and then go online searching. You won’t have to give up quality for size not these days.
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