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Buying a color laser printer.

Why choose a color laser printer?

When you’re looking to buy a printer for your home, office or home office, you have a multitude of options from which to choose. Your first decision is likely whether to get an inkjet or a laser printer. Laser printers are considered to be more effective for printing text, are generally faster and more reliable, and cost less to run, especially in high volume environments where you need a workhorse printer. A black and white laser printer may be a good option for home or home office if you will only be printing black and white and grayscale documents. But if you need to print photos, or color graphics, you’ll want a color laser printer. You can also save space and dollars by combining printing, scanning, copying, and with some models faxing as well. This type of all-in-one color laser printer was originally designed for smaller tasks within homes and small businesses, but they’re now also available in larger and more powerful versions for medium to large businesses.

When you’re searching for the best color laser printer for home, you’ll find there are a number of convenience features you can choose from, including double-sided scanning, an auto document feeder, a touch screen, and mobile device printing, which allows you to send data wirelessly from a smartphone or tablet. You can choose a Wi-Fi color laser printer if you’d like to have placement flexibility, since you can situate it anywhere it can detect a strong Wi-Fi or Bluetooth signal. Or you can choose a wired color laser printer, usually direct-connected using USB, which is generally cheaper and typically easier to install.

Setting up your new color laser printer.

Once you’re selected the best color laser printer for your purposes, you’ll want to turn your attention to setting it up. Connecting a wired printer using printer cables is relatively easy, presuming you select the right type and length of cable to meet your needs. On the other hand, connecting a wireless printer is not necessarily difficult, but does present more of a challenge, primarily because there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Rather, connection depends on the model of printer you choose, and whether you want to connect it to a network, to one or more individual computers, or directly to a device like a tablet or smartphone. Easy to follow instructions are included with every color laser printer purchase. It’s also important to consider that a color laser printer uses toner. More specifically, it uses four toner cartridges, one cartridge each for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. You’ll know it’s time to replace your toner cartridges when you get an onscreen alert, or see a status indicator light on your printer.

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