Personal laser

From Printing

Surveyed February–March 2007

Contents 1 overview 2 characteristics 2.1 Printing Technology 2.2 Print Resolution 2.3 Paper Sources 2.4 Interface Connections 3 UI interface features 3.1 real printing parameters

overview

Personal laser printers for office or small workgroups

• medium resolution: 600 or 1200 dpi
• medium volume printing: 300–20.000 pages per month
• medium printing speed: 7–25 ppm
• medium paper capacity: 200–250 sheet
• for personal or small group use
• Manual or Duplex printing (printing on both sides of paper)

example: Brother HL-5250DN

characteristics

Printing Technology

• grayscale
• Color 40%

Print Resolution

• 300 + 600 5% of printers, at the bottom of this market
• 300 + 600 + 1200, most printers in this cluster
• 600 + 1200 + HQ1200 (2400x600dpi, useful for photo or graphic printing), 20% of printers in this market

Paper Sources

• Standard:
  • 200-250 Sheet Paper Cassette (A4, Legal, Letter, Executive);
  • 90- 200 Sheet Multi-Purpose Tray (normal sizes + Custom Sizes, Long Sized Paper and Envelopes), only the printers at the bottom of this market do not have this.
• Optional:
  • 250-550 Sheet Paper Cassettes, 50% of printers in this market allow to add one, 8% allow up to 3 to be added.

Interface Connections

• Parallel 45%
• Network (also 802.11b/g wireless)70% optional 5%
• USB all

Optional 3% of printers, at the top of this market have accessories like Hard Disk:

• for spooling feature
• to store frequently used print jobs

UI interface features

real printing parameters

• No of Copies
  • collate
• Page range: consecutive and non-consecutive ranges, current page
• Reverse page printing order
• Paper Size: A4, letter, legal, executive, A5, A6, B5, B6, DL, C5, 3x5, A4Long
• fit to paper size
• (N-up): print multiple images per page: Normal, 2in1, 4in1, 9in1, 16in1, 25in1,
• border lines on/off, choice of lines
• Poster: print over multiple pages: 1in2x2, 1in3x3, 1in4x4, 1in5x5
  • running order of images
• Orientation: Portrait, Landscape
  • rotate image 180 degrees
• Duplex : either automatic (55%, optional on 8%), or 'user assisted': 10%
  • Binding left/top/right
  • page 1 goes on back of first sheet
• Media Type: ex. transparent, plane paper, etc.
• Paper Source: auto, tray 1, tray 2, manual
• Watermark
  • on/off;
  • first page/side only
  • select preset texts;
  • create new: browse an image, input text;
  • adjust font;
  • place watermark on page;
  • adjust transparency.
• Resolution: draft, photo, text, etc.
• colour: auto, colour, grayscale, rich grayscale

10% printers allow to change the colors settings: no parameters for this cluster.