This is the fourth and final installment in a series of buyer’s guides that focus on consumer-oriented PC printers. We cover some of the most popular black-and-white, or monochrome, laser printers, including two multi-function copier (MFC) models. We also look at a single printer that handles tabloid-size pages for those with plus-size output needs, in keeping with our emphasis on units suitable for home or SOHO use. Our previous installments covered 11 Color Inkjet Printers, 16 Multi-Function Inkjet Printers, and 12 Color Laser Printers Explored. Be sure to check them out as well.

The basic mechanics of a monochrome laser printer are much simpler compared to color, because only a single laser is needed. With a monochrome laser printer, pages are printed with only a single pass of a laser across a photosensitive receptor.

(Full article ‘12 Monochrome Laser Printers’)

This is the third in a series of four buyer’s guides that focus on consumer oriented printers for use with computers. This guide covers some of the most popular color laser printers, including a couple of multi-function copier (MFC) models, in keeping with our emphasis on units suitable for home or SOHO use. The fourth and final installment will cover monochrome laser printers, along with a handful of specialty items such as tabloid size printers, which some readers might find interesting or even necessary. Our previous two installments covered 16 Multi-Function Inkjet Printers. Stay tuned for our final upcoming offering, and be sure to check out our previous two as well.

The basic mechanics of a color laser printer include several systems and components.

(Full article ‘12 Color Laser Printers Explored’)

This is the second article in a series of four buyer’s guides that focus on consumer-oriented printers available for use with computers. This guide covers the most popular of the so-called multi-function copied, or MFC, inkjet printers, and continues our special emphasis on units suitable for home or SOHO use. Upcoming follow-on installments will cover color- and monochrome-laser printers. Our previous installment covered 11 Color Inkjet Printers.

The print engine in the MFC printers we examine in this Buyer’s Guide is the same as the one we previously looked at – namely, a color inkjet that typically combines three sets of color jets (one for Cyan, another for Magenta and a third for Yellow, in accordance with the more printer-friendly CMY color model) along with a four set of jets for black.

(Full article ‘Multi-Functional Inkjet Printer Buyer’s Guide’)

This is the first in a series of four planned buyer’s guides on consumer-oriented printers available for use with computers. This guide covers the most-popular color inkjet printers, with a special emphasis on units suitable for home or SOHO use. Upcoming guides will cover multi-function printers that copy, print and fax (and sometimes scan). We will also look at color and monochrome laser printers as well.

The sheer number of offerings in all of these categories forced us to focus our coverage on the best-selling printers from the aforementioned categories. Our favorite source of market information for this kind of activity comes from Newegg.com, which lists over 560 printers among its various offerings, of which more than half (260) fall into the color inkjet category.

(Full article ‘Buyer’s Guide: 11 Color Inkjet Printers’)