While choosing the printer, you must know the types of printers and the advantages and the disadvantages.
So here is a brief account of the types of the printer and detailed information about them.
The printers can be of two types: Impact printers and non-impact printers.
Lets have a look about these printers.
Impact printers
An impact printer is the one who makes contact with the paper. It makes the print on the paper by pressing the ribbon with the ink on the paper. Here are few of the examples of the impact printers.
• Dot matrix printer:
This type of printer makes the use of the print heads with a range of 9 to 24 pins. These pins produce the dots, and the collection of the dots make the individual characters. The letters produced are clearer on the papers. The pins strike on the paper individually and this mechanism when gets repeated over a period then the letters are produced. The clarity of the printers completely depends on one factor, and that is the number of pins present. More the number of pins more is the clarity of the letters in the printer.
• Daisy-wheel printers:
This is the printer which gives the quality as that of the typewriters. This has been given such name because the mechanism looks like that of the daisy wheel, where at the end of each petal there is a completion of the letter. The speed of the printer is quite slow when it is compared to other printers.
• Line printers:
These are slow how far the enormous printing in the business setups are concerned. Line printers use the mechanism of printing the whole line at a time.
• The drum printers:
These printers consist of a single drum which is cylindrical and has the raised characters in them. The rotation of the drum takes place at a rapid speed. The time required to print the character is quite fast.
• Chain printers:
They are the chain of the characters which are printed, and they are wrapped with the pulleys. There is a hammer for each print position, the hammer strikes the page, and presses the paper against the ribbon. The speed of the chain printers is observed to reach a range of 400 to 2500 words.
• Band printers:
The operation of the band printers are similar to those of the chain printers and the major difference between both of them is that it makes the use of the band except the chain. The font styles can also be changes just by replacing the band. These printers can be easily found in Konica Minolta in Australia.
Non-impact printer
These are the printers which do not make the use of the striking devices on the paper. Here are some of the examples of such printers.
• Ink Jet printers:
When you have a look at the images printed by the dot matrix printer, it will look like the dot-matrix printer, but that is not so. The dots that appear on the pictures are due to the spraying of the ink. The printer sprays the ink through the small nozzle interrupted by the electric field which helps in an arrangement of the inks into the characters. The ink then gets completely absorbed in the paper when it comes in contact to the paper. If you decide to use laser printers in the future, you can sell your unused printer ink to Sell Toner for extra income.
• Laser printer:
The working of the laser printers is like those of the photocopy machine. This makes the use of the laser beam at a mirror that bounces the beam of the laser rays on to the drum. Then the ink powder coating sticks on the paper which is known as the toner and this is done with the help of the drum. These printers are available at a very less price in Konica Minolta in Australia.
These are the major types of printers that can be found in the market. One must make sure that selection has to be made taking all the requisites of the purpose into consideration.
