With every bit of information transfer and manipulation going digital these days, almost the entire data in any office are centered on its computers. This works as long as you want to work on it or view the data at one’s own desk. But what about keeping a dossier of these electronic data or obtaining the specs of a project to refer at home or while on a business trip? Well, one can take the printouts of the desired records and carry it wherever one wants or goes. The device that helps one take the print is called a printer, our current topic of discussion. Office printers or simply printers are those devices that could convert the documents stored in electronic form in a computer into permanent human-readable text / graphics on a physical print media such as a paper. Most printers are used as a computer peripheral device, always connected to its document source.

Further, most modern day printers can interface with other electronic media such as memory cards and sticks, and digital devices like cameras and scanners. Then there are printers that combine the functionalities of a scanner and fax machines as well. In the following paragraphs, we’ll see the different types of common office printers in vogue. Office printers are generally classified on the basis of the printing technology it employs. Along these lines, office printers - belonging to the modern printing technology - can be classified as tone-based printers, liquid inkjet printers, solid inkjet printers and dye-sublimation printers. It should be kept in mind that each technology has its own applications in terms of text/image quality, speed, and cost, and print media, with certain ones being tailor made to suit some specific print media only.