Top 5 Printers

There are no good printers or bad printers, there are only efficient and inefficient printers. Coming under the category of pc peripheral, printers are perhaps the most uneconomical of the accessories for laptop or hardware for personal computer. Why? Because you will incur costs regularly and consistently by way of consumables like ink cartridges, toner cartridges, print drums etc.

Epson L100:

Epson L100 is an inkjet printer with a difference – instead of using liquid ink cartridges Epson L100 employs Ink tank technology for high volume printing. Ink tanks – one for each color and black cartridges, are used in place of replaceable cartridges.  These tanks can be easily refilled using ink bottles that can be purchased. Higher cost of printing involved in inkjet printers are reduced. This compact Epson printer is one of the best accessories for laptop due to its reduced costs and increased output.

Epson AcuLaser M1200

AcuLaser M1200 is a laser printer from Epson. The unique feature of this printer is that there are 3 different types of toner cartridges that can be used with this piece of pc peripheral – low capacity cartridge that yields on an average, 900 pages, moderate or standard yield cartridge that gives 1800 pages and high capacity cartridge that yields 3200 pages. While it sports a 48 MHz processor, the AcuLaser printer also has a parallel port (IEEE 1284) that can be quite useful and fast. This laser based piece of pc peripheral.

Samsung ML-1666

Claimed to be one of the smallest printers in the world, the Samsung ML-1666 is a black and white laser printer that is very productive. Built with a 150 MHz processor and 8MB memory, this Samsung laser printer can become the hardware for personal computer you own. Using a one-piece cartridge which is convenient to replace/install, this laser printer assures you of a yield of 1500 pages per cartridge.

Dell Mono 1130 and 1130n

Dell Mono 1130 and its cousin the Mono 1130n are two of its kind. With single input slot for media like envelopes, these laser printers are built for performance. The 1130 laser has 8MB memory while the 1130n has 64MB memory. 1130n has Ethernet networking capability in addition to its other performance features. Bothe Dell printers can use standard cartridges with 1500 pages yield or high capacity 2500 pages yield. These Dell accessories are useful pieces of hardware for personal computer are useful investments!