Color Label Printer (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

This label printer is made by Primera Technologies and it is a label printer. When the name of the printer is written, it is also written that this is an inkjet color printer. The model of the printer is LX900. The shipping weight is of 51 pounds. If you get this printer from Amazon, some weight taxes may apply, because this is not a regular item, which can be shipped without any problems whatsoever.

Color Label Printer (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

This printer uses a roll of 8.1 inches. The resolution is of 4800 dpi. The printer is enhanced with the USB technology, which means that you can use this printer by connecting it via the USB ports to the computer. It is a bit odd to use this method. Usually you can connect the printer to an USB stick or an SD memory card in this way, not to a computer. Anyway, if you decide to get a label printer, this is one of the best, and I am not saying this, but all those who bought the printer and then reviewed it on Amazon. In fact, more information about it and about the costs with the transport, you can see on that site.

A label printer is a printer, which can be connected to a computer, and in fact offers the other characteristics of a printer, but has a different form. The shape of this is resembling to a toy, but this is not a toy. The label printers are of all sizes and for all the printing labels that you can think of. The label printers do what a normal printer does, only that it imprints the paper with your logo or with a label something that announces the people that use that product that it has been made by your company.

You can print the address where you want a product to be shipped, you can print the logo of your company obviously, bar codes, CDs, DVDs, I mean their covers of course, ID badges, cassette labels and more. With a label printer, you will forget about the hassle generated by a laser or inkjet printer, when you want to design and prepare the labels that you will print. You don’t need to be very attentive where the sheets are when you want to print a new batch. When you buy a printer, no matter the type or model, you will receive a driver, which is a software program designed to make the printer run with the computer. Well, in this case, the software that you receive gives you control over the fonts, over the date and time which will be stamped on the batch, line drawings and more.

There are good points and bad points to both laser vs inkjet printers but there are also some ‘rules’ that aren’t as true as you may think. For one, they say laser printers are as a rule faster than inkjets. This is rarely true nowadays. When you’ll have to print complex color documents and require larger paper coverage then yes, lasers are generally faster. For laser printers there isn’t much difference between printing draft or high quality, printing a whole page or just text.

For inkjets however, the more coverage you have and the better the quality, the higher the printing time. If you’re just interested in mono and color documents with low paper coverage both technologies will do about as well. Thus, lasers have constant performance. Inkjets are slower on photos and graphics but generally faster at draft quality text. Laser printers also have warm up times and when you’re printing rarely you’ll have to include that time in the printing time as well. It can sometimes be annoying to wait 20-30 seconds for a page to start printing.

Printing costs tend to be higher for inkjets. This is strictly because ink cartridges can become clogged when you’re using the printer less often. To clean the cartridge more ink is used. Apart from printing cost is about the same. It used to be higher in the case of inkjets a few years ago, before inkjets started using separate tanks of ink, but now it’s not the case anymore. Toners for lasers have a higher capacity but also a higher cost and overall you will reach the same maintenance price.

A big difference regards the size of the devices. Laser color printers are almost always very bulky. Inkjets are much smaller and most of them won’t take up your whole desk whereas lasers might even need to be seated on the floor. Then again, laser printers offer more paper storage capacity. So if you’re printing needs are massive, it’s better to chose a large printer and not be bothered with changing replacing paper every one or two hours.

Even now lasers excel text printing. They produce sharp, crisp high quality prints. The table is turned when it comes to photo printing where lasers don’t do so well, but inkjets shine. You can even get special photo cartridges for inkjet printers that will further improve quality. Unfortunately no one printer can offer everything and both inkjet and laser printers have qualities and flaws. Before choosing a laser vs inkjet printer you must seriously consider what your office really needs out of such a device.