The network printers are the printers installed over the private network such as LAN; these printers are used for printing documents from various computer terminals in the network. The network can be established over the whole department or a building of an organization. These network printers make connection to the network by being installed at some specific USB port of the main computers of the central offices and take commands of printing from the various terminals connected, only if the permission from the main computer is granted.
These Printers are the multifunctional printers that offer many features within a single unit. These printers include scanner, photocopier and sometimes-even Fax machine within it. Such printers find great use in the offices as the need of buying other equipments is prevented. The other equipments, if bought separately, cost even more amount and also occupy more space. For this reason, very high performance, all-in-one printers are being used today.
These printers can be either laser printer or ink jet printers. Laser printers deliver high speed of operation while the ink jet printers are comparatively slow. Today printers are available in many configurations, types, capacity, functionality and style. Printers can be either colored or monochrome. They can be chosen on the basis of user capacity, that is, the connectivity to the terminals. A few manufacturers offer even up to 200 user terminals connectivity.
The multifunctional printers are offered by many manufacturers in the market. Some of the famous manufacturers include Brother, Canon, Copystar, Kyucera, Lexmark, NEC, OKi, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp and Xerox etc. The Copystar CS 1635, NEC NEFAX-805 and Sharp AR-M162 are a few of the best seller printers which are in current trend. The cost of these printers comes in the range of 600-1100$.
The printers can be selected on the basis of printing speed based on their printing requirements. The speed varies as number of pages it can print in a second along with maintaining a good quality print. Few printers come in with networking capability, if the requirement is for the whole department then printer with networking facility should be used. Their network installation is also very easy, many a times the company sends a serviceman for installing the printer.
Today network printers have become a very common device in any office department. Its utility is nowhere hidden; any user from his terminal can use them anytime. By network printer the need of buying several printers is vanished. And when these printers include scanner, copier and Fax machine, then it satisfies all the needs of an office.
Thus the multifunctional network printers are the choice of the time; these should be installed in places such as offices, companies, departments, business houses etc. The easier is the use of technology, the more is speed of operation of the system. So for making an efficient operational system there should be continuous revision in the accessories and equipments used.
By: Keith Reynolds
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You have gotten your home wireless network up and running without too much trouble. You have learned that it is really convenient to be able to go from place to place and continue your work or play without being tethered by cords and wires.
But you do work and you need to print items from time to time. But the only printer you have is up in the home office and it is connected to your old desktop pc. It is a major hassle every time you have to print something. You have to save the file to a thumb drive or send it as an attachment to an email. Then you have to go all the way up to your office and power up your desktop. When it finally boots up, you have to open you mail or attach you thumb drive and save the file to the desktop. Now you fire up the printer and finally, you print it out.
There has to be a better way. There is! Attach you printer to your home wireless network and you can print anytime and from anywhere in your home. But how?
If you printer has a built in Ethernet adapter, just hook it up to you network. But I have a feeling if it had a NIC built-in, you would have already done that and have had little need to find and read this article in the first place!
Or you could go out and buy a printer with an Ethernet NIC built-in, bring it home, plug it in and off you go. But why spend money on a new printer when you have a perfectly good laser printer and color ink printer just sitting there?
Well, the cheapest and easiest way is to leave your desktop on all the time and enable printer sharing on that computer for that printer. Well, that was quick and easy but hardly the best solution available. If you don’t want you computer sitting idle 99% of the time in the off chance you will print something, there is a better solution.
Get a print server. There are dozens of choices on the market and these devices can breathe new life into the printers you already own. Some connect with a network cable but more and more models are coming onto the market that are wireless. This is worth every penny if you want your printers in an out-of-the-way location and you do not have Ethernet cabling in that location.
Just shop around and you should be able to find a print server solution to fit your needs. Expect to pay more for a wireless solution but prices have really come down over the last year.
By: Jeff Runyon
