Exploring Pentax PocketJet 3

PJ3

Do you meet with Clients on the go where you are expected to give quotations or custom brochures? Here’s something perfect for your needs, a printer that prints on the go. No wires, no power sources, no hassles and more importantly it prints at a finger stroke. Meet Pentax PocketJet 3, an ink-cartridge-less printer which can print on A4 sized paper.

PJ3 is a wireless printer enforced with Bluetooth technology. It is a thermal printer which requires special thermal paper. Thermal paper’s colour changes when heat is applied according to the required print. This printer can print 100 pages before it runs out of juice, it needs to be recharged. It is slow with just 3 pages a minute. PJ3 is only a grayscale printer which is a huge drawback in today’s world.

This half a kilo printer would be an ideal salesperson’s pal. But with printers like Zink which can print colour and do a lot more than this one, one would really have to think hard before buying PJ3. PJ3 starts at £175 and 100 pages of thermal paper costs £6.

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Abhinav has been blogging about printing and related technologies on CreativeCloud for several years. He is also a project manager for a large technology company.

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