| | Most businesses need to produce letters, memos, reports etc and the quality of your printer will largely depend on the quality, speed and versatility that your require | |
| | Printers with a higher number of dots per inch (dpi) produce better quality. | |
| | A basic laser printer will print at 600dpi. | |
| | Inkjet printers are cheaper than laser printers and can also prodcuce good quality. They tend to be slower though. | |
| | Small laser printers are suitable for one to three people and are designed to print roughly between 1,000 and 5,000 pages a month at a speed of between 8 to 16 pages per minute (ppm). | |
| | Some laser printers can work with both PC and Macintosh computers although most are designed to work with one or the other. | |
| | The cost of printing a page on a laser printer costs less than that to print on an inkjet printer. | |
| | If you need to regularly print hundreds or thousands of pages then it may be cheaper in the long run to buy a more expensive laser printer. | |
| | Your computer will need printer driver software before it will work however Windows will automatically recognise and configure your system accordingly. | |