Top 5 Printers For Small Businesses
How do you judge a good printer from the heart-stopping all-round performing excellence and beauty of a printer? The answer is right there. Half of the so-called mega-makers of printers have been creating a media frenzy about whose is best, but we should know because we use them. No need to interrupt my favourite comedy to tell me how the Brother can tell how urgently I need a printout, or when I need not stress about empty cartridges.
There is one advert though that shows a photo of a brutish looking man in a suit that silences even the cheekiest of crying tots that says at the bottom of your screen, “the almost real view is a printout of clarity from Brand A.” Then the guy stops posing and smiles, leaving you wondering if they were just kidding. But this is no issue to do with advertising – it’s about knowing what great printers there are out there.
WiFi Connectivity
In this age of wireless connectivity, anyone with a computer treats the very notion of wire clutter with utter contempt. All I want to do is select my pages from the comfort of my seat, print each one to any printer that’s in my office provided it has wireless connectivity. I would hate to get up and collect a printout and fall over my wired printer connection!
Speed, Without The Noise
From fast cars to faster internet connection speeds. Let’s face it. We want speed as a feature in every gadget we possess. If I have a printer that starts screaming before it even picks my paper, then makes a dreadful sound getting my printout done, taking all of ninety seconds to finish a photo-laden one-page document, I will lose my nerves and probably bash the poor thing to a pulp. Minimum time and maximum quality with little or no noise pollution gets my thumbs up.
Fax, Scan, Copy Capability
Yes please! If I could get a printer that has all these features combined, I would kiss the salesperson regardless of the pricing.
Efficient Photo Printing
If there is one thing these printer-making wizards came up with that I find magical, it’s the ability to shove a flash card into a printer slot and have it print out one of the clearest images that even my studio guru would never come up with.
The following is a list of printers, ranked best down, that are ideal for your small business. So the next time you are upgrading, keep these in mind.
1. Lexmark X7675 Pro (Around £140 / $)
All In One, child’s play wireless setup, to-die-for excellence in print quality, and onscreen controls make this printer my first love. With a curvaceous dark gleaming architecture and a silent operation with portability like no other, you would be happy to take this baby home any day.
What’s more, they have even thrown in a five year warranty to assure you that you made the right choice. It may be slow but it answers that with the best picture quality ever! [Buy Lexmark X7675 ink]
2. HP OfficeJet J6480 (Around £85 / $120)
Yes, HP appears again with this creative invention that has a useful auto-duplex facility. For the non-techno savvy, it means that this contraption can easily print on both sides of the page without begging you to flip the pages yourself.
Other features include the not-so-perfect optical character recognition scanner that allows the scanner to convert graphics to text, auto-document feeder and an easy-to-configure wireless setup that is not present in some All In One inkjets. [Buy HP J6480 ink]
3. HP Photosmart 3310 All In One (Around £80 / $120)
This beauty with brains can print photos in no time, usually in less than fifteen seconds, allowing you to preview them on a 9 cm screen that can still do videos, including sound. Yeah, there I said it, sound from a printer. Amazing, isn’t it?
The HP Photosmart 3310 comes in third because of the nerve-wracking chore of aligning your scans on its flatbed. You’ll need patience, lots of patience. [Buy HP 3310 ink]
4. Canon Pixma MP800R (Around £265 / $380)
Canon have all the answers to photo printing but this is their best ever All In One laden with a gorgeous curvy finish that would elicit the temptation to keep touching it.
As if that is not enough, Canon threw in an array of buttons for you to push all you want, and watch what happens from an 8.9 cm screen. It makes you forget where you placed your laptop! Like most high performing Canon printers, this one comes with direct photo printing from flash cards and a stocky price.
5. Brother MFC-640CW (Around £90 / $130)
Last but not least is this big All In One with a multi-functional flash card reader. Many sales people would recommend this to any business man who is not big on photo printing and just wants functionality.
If all you want is to click from their PC and collect from the tray, this is a good choice. Good for a formal office. [Buy Brother MFC-640CW ink]
About the author:
Tom is a huge tech and gadget geek with a broad range of interests including travel, art and design. Much of his time is spent blogging on CreativeCloud but he also enjoys writing for other blogs in the design niche.
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