How to Buy a Printer

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Chris Bryce from Superservice.com. We're going to talk today about how to buy a printer. If you're looking at buying a printer, the first thing to look at is whether you're going to be going with black and white or color. On an InkJet printer, the different speeds that are out there are dependent upon the colors that you're using. Whether you're going with a color or the black and white. When you go to some of the bigger outlets for retail centers on printers and computer products, they'll usually have printers on display that you can actually look at the output of the printer itself. So you'll be able to see how fast they're printing, but also the quality. Sometimes the quality of the resolution, the DPI settings, are really not that good compared to other units that may have a lower DPI, but they just tend to have a crisper, better appearance because of the inks that they use. One of the things to really keep in mind is what color you're going to be printing. There are several manufacturers out there who have had a really hard time reproducing true blue or royal blue or prints. There's only a couple different manufacturers out there such as Epsom and Hewlett-Packard who have really mastered the art of printing in a true blue. The other printers out there sometimes tend to look as much as a purple instead of a blue. So look at the color output, look at the speed of the printer, ranging anywhere from three to five pages a minute, although up to twenty or thirty pages per minute, and make your decision based on those options. That's how you buy a printer."