Thursday, January 20, 2011

Know About the Difference Between the Laser Printer and Inkjet Printer

In order to run business efficiently, barcode system is being used by almost every business all over the world. Barcodes contain the machine-readable information, which is read by barcode scanner devices. Barcodes can be printed by barcode printer. There are many types of barcode scanners and printers. You need to invest on the right scanner and right printers.

Inkjet printer and laser printer are the two types of printers. These two printers have great quality, but they print the barcode as an image, which uses more memory and may slow down the printing speed. In order to see these two models, you can go for Zebra printers. There are differences between these printers such as:

  • The technology which is used in both the printers is different. So they perform the work in different ways.
  • These two types of printers are intended for general consumers. Generally laser printers are substantially faster than inkjet printers in printing pages. Using different technology is the main reason for this fastness printing.
  • Laser printer performs with same speed in printing text or image. But inkjet performs with different speeds in case of textual and images. The inkjet has to spary ink for each pixel of the image, so that is why it works slow.
  • If you compare them in size, laser printers, specially colour printers are huge than inkjet printers. Weight of the laser printer is more than the inkjet printers.
  • If you compare them in the cost, laser printers are the expensive than the inkjet printers.
These are the differences between the inkjet printers and laser printers. However you can choose any one according to your convenient.

1 comment:

Safdar Ali said...

Great post with nice details. Can i print Plastic cards by any laser printer?