INKJET PRINTER

The original advantage of the inkjet printer was that it could reproduce colour when only very expensive laser options could That price differential has all but disappeared but inkjet technology can now produce photographic quality outputs Print speeds and text quality can be lower than laserbased versions and running costs can be considerably higher An inkjet is the right choice for allround use These with monochrome printers most common among laserprinter types may well have colour scanners but are only able to print in black and white Most inkjet printer are able to print in colour and black and white but some cheaper inkjet printers can print both but not at the same time If you want to print a page which contains black and white text and colour images you will need an inkjet printer with four colours The higher the bitdepth of a scanner the higher the quality of the scan Most colour scanners are 24bit and collect 8 bits of information about each of the three primary colours red green and blue This gives excellent quality Scanners with 30 or 36 bits are also available They require printer memory to store and process information while printing Measured in megabytes MB the more memory the device has the faster it will print Allows you to transfer images from the memory card in a digital camera directly to a compatible allinone without a computer or editing software Print size and layout can be set using the controls and the LCD on the camera PictBridge is becoming the standard for digital image transfers and replacing proprietary solutions Faxes can be sent either directly from your computer or by printing a document and feeding it through to send Will store faxes sent to you when machine is not in use Usually supplied with the software for the machine a printer driver controls the communication between your computer and the allinone Updates to drivers are commonly made available from the manufacturers web sites Sometimes called duplex mode means you can print doublesided documents Print speeds usually expressed in pages per minute for allinones will vary so if they are going to be important to you you should compare competing models Most models on the market will print between 20 and 25 black and white pages per minute Colour pages will take longer depending on the quality selected