All-In-One Printers

Before buying a printer, you should first consider whether you want an inkjet or a laser printer / LED. 

Multifunction Inkjet Printers

• Print monochrome and colour text documents, pictures, graphics, or photographs in high quality.
• Compared with laser printers, they are usually cheaper to buy but more expensive per printed page due to the higher cost of inkjet cartridges.
• Inkjet printers also consume more ink, which increases running costs.

Multifunction Laser Printers

• Suitable for frequent high-volume printing with low operating costs, high speed and high print quality.
• Monochrome and colour options available.
• For frequent printing of high-quality photographs, we recommend multifunction inkjets. Although photographic paper is available for colour laser printers, inkjets offer higher printing quality.

What else should I consider when choosing a printer?

With the rise of mobile devices and cloud services, network functions are becoming increasingly important, such as printing via LAN, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or NFC. If you want to print from multiple devices, you should select a printer with LAN support, otherwise a printer with a USB port will be fine.

Scanner functions

Scanner type

• Flatbed
  • The most common type - paper is placed on a glass plate and is scanned by a sensor mechanism underneath.
  • The advantage is that it can scan anything that can be placed on the glass surface - sheets of paper, pages of pamphlets or books, etc.
  • The disadvantage is that each sheet must be scanned separately.
• Sheetfed
  • This type of scanner is more common in larger corporate environments than at home.
  • Paper is placed in the tray and is then fed through the feeder to be scanned.
  • The advantage is that you can scan multiple documents in one job.
  • The downside is that most models are limited to a maximum size of A4; due to their design, they cannot scan brochures, books and the like.

Scanner resolution

• Measured in DPI (dots per inch - the number of pixels per inch).
• The higher the number, the better the quality of the scan.
• Today's scanners have a resolution of at least 600 dpi, which is sufficient to scan everyday documents.
• To scan photos, we recommend a DPI of at least 1200, ideally 2400.

Converting scanned files to text

• Indicated by the acronym OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
• Some manufacturers supply text-recognition software with the scanner, but none of them are absolutely flawless.