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If you are a home office manager or a corporate office supplies buyer you should go for high-quality standards while keeping costs at a minimum. There are various printers and printer supplies so that your office gets the most important things done effectively. If you are a budding photographer, a heavy paper-pusher, or a student printing drafts upon drafts, you are best served to have the best printers at your disposal.

This lens is your friendly guide in choosing the right printer and printer ink cartridges for you.

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Cartridge Cleaning FAQ 

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  • How Do I Clean Printer Cartridges?

    Firstly establish whether or not your printer cartridge needs to be cleaned. To do this, run a test print and look for streaks or other indications such as dots which would suggest that the cartridge needs to be cleaned. Should you feel that the cartridge needs to be cleaned then select this option - those that are not sure how to perform this function on their specific printer should refer to their user manual. Now print another test page and analyze the quality. Repeat until satisfied.
  • How Do I Clean the Printer Head

    Most printers have an in-built cleaning function which you can use to clean the printer head. You should check your user manual to find out the specific procedure that you are supposed to use for your printer. Should that not work, or your printer does not have that functionality, then you should buy a substance that is over 90% alcohol and apply it to the printer head.
  • What do I do with the low level ink gauge that keeps popping up?

    That seems to be the problem with most HP and Lexmark printers. You can try running the utilities software to clean the printer head. You can reinstall printer driver, or you can ignore the message as it may go away after a few days.

Jazzing up you small office 

Things You Should Know Before Choosing the Right Color Laser Printer for Your Small Office

Nearly all the printer manufacturers design special machines for small office use. These printers slightly from personal or home printers and large office printers from of their features and specifications. There are multiple specifications identifird a printer meant for small office use. In order to select an appropriate color laser printer for your small office, you must always keep these points in mind.

Firstly, a small office printer should have reasonable printing speed. The typical printing speed for office printers is 22 ppm. In general, it can vary from 20 ppm to 35 ppm. Machines with lesser speeds are meant for personal use and not for offices. Secondly, it should possess a sufficiently large media capacity. It is better to have more than one trays to ensure a media capacity of at least 150 sheets. The paper capacity up to 600 sheets is appropriate. Machines with larger media capacity are employed in large offices.

Thirdly, while choosing a laser printer for a small office, you must make sure that the machine can be shared by a group of users and is not meant for individual use. This is specified by its type in the product description. Only if the printer type is specified as 'workgroup', can it be used in small offices. In general, small office printers can be shared by groups of 7 to 10 users. Fourthly, you should make sure that the machine you select has a sufficiently high duty cycle ranging from 20,000 to 25,000 pages.

The fifth thing that must be kept in mind in order to make a proper choice is that your machine should be able to print onto multiple media types. It should be able to print on plain paper, cards, envelopes, labels and transparencies.

The sixth important feature that your small office printer must possess is small size and less weight. The machine must be compact and should weigh no more than 5 kg. However if it is a multifunction machine, it may weigh as much as 16.5 kg.

The seventh quality you should look for in a machine for your small office is the ability to work without creating noise. Quiet operation is necessary for a small office computer. The eighth point you must remember while selecting a color laser printer is that it should have a high resolution. It must have a printing resolution of 1200 dpi into 600 dpi or 1200 dpi into 1200 dpi. The ninth important quality that makes a machine eligible for use in small offices is that it should be able to print on large size media including the legal size.

Last but not the least, the machine should have sufficiently large cartridges to prevent interruptions during the tasks. This tenth point is of immense importance in rendering a machine suitable for office use. None of these points should be ignored in order to make an ideal purchase. Office machines are costly and should be chosen with ultimate care.

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tech_writer

Thanks! Glad to be of help!

Posted January 14, 2008

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Thanks for the short but great info. I will keep this in mind for my small home office setting

Posted January 11, 2008

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