A brief knowledge of the top-line equipment available in the market and their functionality will help you to select the best one, which is also price effective.  This will help you to cut down the cost and at the same time, establish a sound business relationship with your customers.

You should check for the resolution and clarity of the images and reports printed with the particular printer. When it is high image rich texts like photos of houses, it often happens that printers fail to provide the required clarity. This will impair the quality of the documents send to the clients, thereby directly interfering with the performance of your business.

The quality of the documents and reports presented to your clients will act as the proof for your reliability, thereby increasing your customer base. When selecting printer for your real estate business, you can always be choosy.

A brief knowledge of the top-line equipment available in the market and their functionality will help you to select the best one, which is also price effective. The printer has to be selected such that all your printing needs should be met effectively. You should check for the resolution and clarity of the images and reports printed with the particular printer.

You must first define your needs. What printer are you looking for? Do you need to choose a printer for home or office, a printer for word processing, accounting or graphics? How many pages are you planing to print monthly? Is the cost per page critical to your application? Before making your choice, take a look to next table.

Not ready yet with your choice?
Our advice is:

• Choose and buy a Laser or LED printer when the fine quality and high resolution are the most critical factors for your applications.
• Choose and buy an Ink-Jet printer when you need a printer for home with color capabilities, acceptable quality for less than 100 pages monthly.
• Your right choice is a Dot-matrix printer when you need to print a great quantity of documents and the “cost per page” is the main factor for your applications.

The greatest advantages of inkjet printers are, quiet operation, capability to produce color images even with photographic quality and the low printer prices. The down side is that although inkjet printers are generally cheaper to buy than lasers, they are far more expensive to maintain. When it comes to comparing the cost per page, ink jet printers work out many times more expensive than laser printers. There are some exceptions of course for some heavy-duty industrial printers. From Tally claim the T3016 SprintJet prints at only 1/3 of a cent per page.

Inkjet printers technology development starts in the early 1960s. The first inkjet printing device was patented by Siemens in 1951, which led to the introduction of one of the first inkjet chart recorders.
The continuous inkjet printer technology was developed later by IBM in the 1970s. The continuous inkjet technology basis is to deflect and control a continuous inkjet droplet stream direction onto the printed media or into a gutter for recirculation by applying an electric field to previously charged inkjet droplets.
The drop-on-demand inkjet printer technology was led to the market in 1977 when Seimens introduced the PT-80 serial character printer. The drop-on-demand printer ejects ink droplets only when they are needed to print on the media. This method eliminates the complexity of the hardware required for the continuous inkjet printing technology. In these first inkjet printers ink drops are ejected by a pressure wave created by the mechanical motion of the piezoelectric ceramic.

Inkjet printer drop-on-demand technology with piezoelectric actuator

At the same time Canon developed the bubble jet printer technology, a drop-on-demand inkjet printing method where ink drops were ejected from the nozzle by the fast growth of an ink vapor bubble on the top surface of a small heater. Shortly thereafter, Hewlett-Packard independently developed a similar inkjet printing technology and named it thermal inkjet.

Bubble jet printer drop-on-demand technology

The most popular inkjet and bubble-jet printers use serial printing process. Similarly to dot matrix printers, serial inkjet printers use print heads with a number of nozzles arranged in vertical columns. The printing process is the same as in dot matrix printers.

Serial Inkjet printer in action