The Laser Personal Printer is the most valuable peripheral either for home PC user or small business needs. Personal Laser Printer gives a better option for many users because of its lower cost and acceptable speed.

The market of laser printer is divided into two sections, personal laser printer and corporate laser printer. Personal laser printer is aimed for home or home office use while the corporate is designed for larger work-groups and businesses.

Personal Laser Printer is made for lower necessity and that is why it can only handle fewer paper and has fewer features compared with the corporate printer. Many manufacturers like HP, Brother, Samsung, Xerox, etc produced personal laser printer for fulfilling the market needs.

Therefore, you will see many types of personal laser printer from many brands with its own features in the printer market. It can make you confuse to decide one of them. Below are the factors that can be your main consideration when choosing your best personal laser printer.

Speed

Personal laser printer speed usually range from 8ppm to 19ppm. Please remember that the manufacturer’s rate is based on the uncomplicated repetitive printing job. The more the printing jobs, the longer time you need. Personal Laser Color Printer speed could be a matter if you need to print hundreds pages at a time.

Color

For measuring the print color quality, you can check to the dpi(dots per inch) number. This number is identifying the number of dots that the printer produces in 1-inch area. Most of laser printer specification describes it as multiplication such as 600×600. The first number means the horizontal dpi while the second is for the vertical dpi. Personal Laser Printer dpi is usually range from 600 to 2,400 dpi. The higher the dpi, the finer the color details the printer produce. Some laser printer also support for PCL (Printer Control Language) or PostScript Level capability. PCL Level 5 or higher and PostScript Level 3 is your must-have-list if you the printer purpose is for desktop publishing or graphic design.

Dimension

The trend of any peripherals nowadays is for being the smallest one. The smaller size is intended to save the printer’s space. But when you choose the smaller one, please remember that you will get less input/output tray capacity and paper types and size.

Paper type and size between personal laser printer, speed is in average. Most the personal printer includes a tray for holding at least 150 pages. Many printers also provide add-on trays for higher capacity at a cost of $100 to $200. Printer with automatic duplex mode, like Brother HL-5040 will be very valuable if you require to print on both sides of the paper frequently. When you also need to scan, copy or fax, your choice can fall on multifunction printer, that is also give you more benefit in save the space.

Connectivity

Almost all Compact Personal Laser Printer is accomplished with high-speed 2.0 USB port for connecting with your PC or accept the data from your USB. But now it is great for having network personal laser printer with wired or wireless capability. Everyone in your home will be able to use the printer and save the cable with wireless option.

Conclusion

Personal laser printer can be sold in inexpensive price. But you have to know at first that personal laser printer will cost more for its toner cartridge. You must convince your research to find out how much cost that you will spend in getting a replacement either by buying the original cartridge or refilling. It is an effective idea to calculate the cost per page. Divide the number of the printer cartridge can produce with the cost. If you want more accurate research, look for independent review for know the true pros and cons. And last, I want to tell you if you want to print many photographs, better you look for ink-jet photo printers for better result.

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