Choosing your Multifunction Printer

Invest in the best multifunction printer

You should always look for the best all in one printer (another name for the multifunction printer) when you plan to buy. You may need to spend tad more to get the best printer, but you will enjoy the benefits in the long term. Brother printers and Canon printers and others are among the best in multifunction printers and it is wise for you to choose from the leading brands. The value for money is immense – your initial extra investment can be easily recouped thanks to the efficiency of your printer.

Multifunction printers with more speed and capacity

Your choice of multifunction printer should depend on how you want to use it. Are you going to print documents more or are you going to print a lot of images and graphs? When the image quality is high, the speed of the printer will get affected. Thus, you have to look at the ppm (pages per minute) of a printer. This count essentially tells you how many pages your printer can print in a minute.

If you need to take a lot of prints, then you also need to choose a multifunction printer that can hold more sheets of paper in its trays. The basic models can hold between 100 and 250 sheets of paper at one time. But if your requirement is higher, then look for printers that have larger capacities.

The scanning quality of multifunction printers

In many multifunction printers, 24-bit scanning is what is possible. However, if scanning is one of the more important activities for you, you should look for a printer that allows for 48-bit scanning. When you compare the quality of the scanned documents in a 24-bit scanner and a 48-bit scanner, you will instantly realize that there is a difference and the difference can be substantial. There are multifunction printers that offer one button scanning and this is of great benefit to the users.

Multitasking in multifunction printers

Multitasking is what a multifunction printer offers but can it do more than one job at the same time? This is another consideration for you – for instance, when the printer is printing, can it also send a fax or scan a document at the same time? An office printer is in constant use and people don’t want to wait for their turn at the machine. Your multifunction printer should be such that more than one person can use it at the same time, thus saving time for everyone.

Size and wireless connectivity

In the earlier days, printers used to be large in size and they had miles of wire that somehow had to be managed. Today, even the best multifunction printers have a more manageable size and can be accommodated in a smaller space. As far as the wires are concerned, they have also reduced in numbers but what you should seriously consider is a wireless printer. In this form of multifunction printer, Bluetooth and WAN connectivity is possible. Thus, the printer can be linked to your network without using wires. Also, when someone wants to take a print from their laptop or handheld device, they can connect with the printer through Bluetooth and use it.

Easy device management

The device management should also be simple. The printer should have an LED display that shows the statuses of the pending jobs. The buttons should be few in number and easy to operate.

Which multifunction printers for which use?

Xerox is obviously the most famous name in printers and the company also manufactures multifunction printers. Some of the top models for you to consider are Xerox WorkCentre 6505DN, Xerox WorkCentre 3615DN, Xerox WorkCentre 3215/NI, Xerox WorkCentre 6605/DN and Xerox WorkCentre 3325/dni.

Brother is another important name in multifunction printers and their best products include Brother MFC-9340CDW, Brother MFC-9130CW, Brother MFC-L2700DW, Brother MFC-L2740DW and Brother MFC-L8850CDW.

And who can ignore Canon in the domain of multifunction printers? The Canon models you should look at are Canon Pixma MX922, Canon PIXMA MG7720, Canon PIXMA MG5620, Canon imageCLASS MF229dw and Canon imageCLASS MF8280Cw.

Epson is also a name you should consider seriously and their top selling models in Canada are Epson WorkForce WF-7620, Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4630, Epson WorkForce Pro WF-5690, Epson WorkForce WF-3640 and Epson Expression Home XP-420.

Last but not the least, Lexmark also produces some fine multifunction printers and the top selling models include Lexmark MX410DE, Lexmark MX310DN, Lexmark CX410DE, Lexmark CX310DN and Lexmark CX310N.