Wide Format Laser Printer

When you need to print larger documents at high speeds with beautiful text, a wide format laser printer can often by the right answer. Most laser printers you find are meant to print normally sized documents but there is a growing number of printers that can handle larger paper. You can find wide format laser printers online at most office supply retail websites or also find them being sold at many office supply stores in your local area.

The most common wide format laser printers will print on paper which is 11 inches by 17 inches, which is also called the tabloid size. This is the size of 2 normal document sized pieces of paper side by side so it's really a big step up. While a normal printer is best for letters and business documents, you can use the wide format version to print posters, banners, and large format magazine previews.

Keep in mind that adding a wide format laser printer to your business office or to your home can get expensive. The printers are more expensive to buy since less are made and typically the people who need them can afford to pay a bit more. The toner cartridge is also expensive since it too much be larger. Finally, even tabloid sized paper is much more expensive than normal document paper: this is not because it requires larger trees! Instead, it's because probably 100 or 1000 times more smaller paper is used and this drives down the price. The demand for tabloid sized paper 11 by 17 inches is less and it's used for more specialized purposes so it will be more expensive to buy.

A wide format laser printer is great for printing posters, powerpoint presentation slides and even charts and graphs for presentations. They are often not as good at printing out photos, even if you buy an expensive color version: the dots produced by a laser printer are not as high resolution as an ink jet printer so if you need to print a lot of large format photos, probably a wide format ink jet printer may be better for your needs. If a new laser printer is out of your budget, it's worth looking around to see if you can find a good deal on a used version: Often people will find that a large format printer simply takes up too much room and cannot justify the minimal usage it gets. You can get advantage of this by getting a great price on a printer that is a few years old but was probably barely used.

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