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Choosing Business Printers

If you own a business and are looking to invest in new printers, there are various important factors to consider. To assist you in this matter, we look at the most important ones below.

Speed

Printers come in a wide range of printing speeds, from slow and methodical to super quick and efficient. It is important to select a printer with the ability to produce documents at a speed that matches the workflow of one’s business. High-quality pictures and brochures with vibrant colour, for example, are best handled by an inkjet printer, which needs more time to develop the image. Laser printers, on the other hand, can produce prints very quickly but with slightly lower colour quality.

Inkjet printers will have various speeds relative to each other, but the faster ones will almost always cost more, and the same goes for laser printing, so if you don’t need a very fast printer, it would be a waste to go for the fastest one available. If your business needs lots of black and white paperwork printed as soon as possible, a quick laser printer will be a more appropriate choice, and if image quality is paramount, then one or more inkjet printers may be needed to meet the pace of your business.

Colour and Medium

As already suggested, inkjet devices have an edge when it comes to colour blending and resolution. This is because the droplets of ink that inkjet cartridges put on the paper are so extremely small – on the scale of micrometres – thousands of a millimetre! This gives an inkjet printer the ability to be super precise when laying down an image. Toner particles in laser printers are also small enough to be best measured in micrometres, but the process of applying and binding the toner to the page is far more vulnerable to smudging and distortion. Inkjet printing also has an advantage in the different types of paper it can print on. They support many types of standard and photo paper, often without much adjusting needed, whereas laser printers often cannot support photo paper or require a bit of tinkering before they can and, even then, may not perform optimally.

Duty Cycle

A printer’s duty cycle is the rough number of pages it is optimised to produce for a given amount of time. For example, if a printer’s duty cycle is 10000 pages per week, then it can be expected to produce 10000 prints per week without breaking down or experiencing significant wear and tear. As with speed, it is important to consider the requirements of your business and choose a printer with a duty cycle that matches the pace of work. Higher duty cycle machines cost more to purchase, and lower duty cycle machines may cost more to maintain if operated beyond their capability.

Raydian has a long history of servicing and managing printers for businesses of all flavours. We offer consultations and printing needs assessment at no extra charge with any of our sales and service agreements, so our team of experts can help you find the right balance for all the considerations mentioned above and more.