Hectic professionals generally devote significant amounts of time away of the office. When you're away from your desk, to be able to produce required documents, files and also photographs can tremendously boost productiveness. This is where mobile printers can be extremely valuable. A portable printer is small, lightweight and has wireless functionality, permitting the consumer to print documents saved on the laptop or a smart phone.

Printing technology is improving rapidly; till recently, compact printers were quite bulky, slow and made prints that were of little quality. Now, however, technology is catching up with the needs of businessmen, and top quality laser and inkjet printers, as well as photograph printers have become portable.

Just What Is A Portable Laser Printer?

A laser printer is usually an outstanding selection for somebody that requires a pretty high resolution printer for document printing.

Laser printers project an image onto the printing drum, which then moves the dry toner directly on top of the blank paper. While toner cartridges are generally higher priced, they offer a high resolution output and provide a lot more copies, making them very inexpensive.

HP LaserJet Pro P1102w

Hewlett Packard makes the HP LaserJet Pro P1102w printer, technically classed as portable. The printer is 9.4 x 13.7 x 7.7 inches and weighs 11.6 pounds. At this over all size, although heavy, it fits inside a carry-on bag for traveling by air. The printer has Bluetooth capability, and the ePrint software enables the consumer remote access and printing. Air Print allows the user to print directly from iPhones and iPads also; smart web printing allows consumers to print online.

The printer will print on normal paper, in addition to envelopes and postcard paper.

A USB 2.0 cable links the printer to a desktop or laptop. The printer is advertised as "the most energy efficient laser printer on the planet" by the producer. Unfortunately, battery powered laser printers are still in the future, because these machines take far more energy than printers desinged to use ink, therefore the unit must be plugged in. This very economical machine is offered by Office Depot, Staples and other office stores, as well as on the internet.

How To Find A Portable Inkjet Printer?

Most truly portable printers are inkjet printers. These kinds of mobile devices make use of ink cartridges, and print in both color and black and white, as well as offering photographic quality printing in some cases.

Hewlett Packard, a business leader, offers a truly outstanding portable inkjet printer, the HP Officejet 100 Mobile Printer L411a. This kind of model weighs 5.5 pounds with the battery, and can print as much as 500 pages on a full charge.

With on board Bluetooth functionality, the printer can link wirelessly for any laptop, smart phone or other Bluetooth equipped machine. This HP portable also prints good quality borderless 46 inch photos at speeds of up to 5 per minute.

Standard printing speed is 18-22 pages each minute. At 3.3 inches high, 13.7 inches wide and 7.8 inches deep, the product in fact fits in a carryon bag rather properly. The printer also accepts flash drives, and comes with a USB 2.0 compliant host port, as well as an included USB 2.0 cable. The printer also includes a charger and a standard power adapter.