The Brother HL-2270DW – A Compact Printer with Great Features for Just Over $150
The Brother HL-2270DW is a monochrome (black and white) laser printer and is a great option for your home office and even as a personal printer if you print a lot of documents. As stated on our website, “The HL-2270DW is a monochrome laser printer that offers an automatic duplex capability for printing two-sided documents with ease, fast printing at up to 27 pages per minute, and built-in wired and wireless networking for sharing with others. It features a stylish, space-saving design that complements virtually any environment. In addition, it offers convenient paper handling via an adjustable, 250-sheet capacity tray. To help lower your operating costs, a high-yield replacement toner cartridge is available.” As a compact printer, measuring in at 7.2″ H x 14.5″ W x 14.2″ D, the Brother HL-2270DW requires comparatively less space when compared to other printers in the industry. Speed is definitely a key factor at 27ppm for text documents, and around 12 pages per minute for documents with photos and graphics. Other HP printer models do compare when it comes to similar speeds like the HL-2240, but these don’t offer other features like wireless capabilities and only offer a USB port. The LaserJet Pro P1102w [...]
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Can Buying an Expensive Printer Save You More Money in Ink or Toner?
Purchasing the printer you want, especially one that fits in your budget, should be simple right? Unfortunately it isn’t. Buying an inkjet printer or a laser printer has more to do with doing your homework on how much it’s going to cost you to run the printer – in terms of buying ink or toner for the printer. You’ll soon find that cartridges can quickly cost a lot more than the printer you bought and if you’re looking for a economical printer you’ll have to consider how much your printer ink or toner costs depending on how much printing you’re planning on doing. Here are a few factors to consider right off the bat as published in an article titled Ink-onomics: Can You Save Money By Spending More on Your Printer? by PCWorld: The cheaper the printer, the more expensive its inks. We’ve tracked the prices of 56 inkjet MFPs over the past two years, and the average cost per page for inks destined for a cheap printer (which we define as one costing less than $200) has consistently been higher than that for an expensive printer (one costing $200 or more). A good example is the comparison between a [...]
Budget-Friendly Kids Projects Using Compatible Ink or Toner Cartridges
Do you balk every time your kids print out something that you know is unnecessary and unimportant and is wasting expensive ink or toner? Most parents are often vigilant of what their kids print as printing can be a costly affair, especially if high-quality graphics or photos are printed in colour. However, that does not mean that parents have to be so overly cautious that kids don’t get to explore new activities and imaginative play through the thousands of printable projects they can find on the web or create themselves. If you’re a parent looking for affordable printing at home, consider compatible ink or toner cartridges. Here are some simple printable activities you can do with your kids that won’t suck up too much ink or toner and are budget-friendly and kid-friendly at the same time! 1. Printable Colouring Pages: Available for free online, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of colouring pages offered for download. You can pick from your child’s favourite cartoon characters, or print activities with a more educational spin like colouring alphabets, numbers, shapes and animals. Depending on your child’s age make sure your child is happy about the activities you choose to print, and involve [...]
Categories: Ink, Toner Tags: activities, budget-friendly, Compatible, ink, kids, laser, printer, projects, toner
How to Print Securely Using Your Xerox Printer
Your Xerox printer or copier can cause serious security problems if you don’t protect your documents properly. Printers print all sorts of sensitive data including confidential documents, bills, invoices, prescriptions etc. that you don’t want others to get their hands on. If you don’t know how to protect your documents, now is the time to be serious about your Xerox printer security. Simple personal and home office printers – believe or not – are actually more secure than the newer multi-function printers you see in the market today. Why? Simply because they lack all the features like their own personal hard drive, their own OS (operating system) and a secure network connection like WIFI that most all-in-one printers are equipped with today. If you own a Xerox MFP you can follow a few simple steps offered by UBC.ca to ensure the documents you print are secure. The screenshots below will help you configure a security PIN to be setup before you print. How this works is that before you send a document to print, set up a PIN on your computer, walk over to your printer, enter the PIN and begin printing your document. Here’s how to do it: 1. [...]
Categories: Xerox Toner Tags: cartridges, print, printer, securely, toner, xerox
Printer Troubleshooting for Mac Printer Users
Do you own a Mac? Frustrated because you just can’t get your printer to print? Try some of these tried and tested methods to get your printer to print with a Mac. 1. Notice the print dialog icon Press Command-P again if your first attempt to print fails. Notice the print dialog icon and check to see if you find a notification mark, click it and you may get a pop up explaining why the printer failed to print and how you can fix the issue. 2. Make sure printing is not paused Your printer may pause automatically especially in the case of a paper jam, or you might pause it yourself if you want to stop the printing for some reason, like sending the wrong version of a document to print. If your printer was paused the last time you printed, an error message might pop up. Click the “resume” button and this should often fix the issue. 3. Is your printer queue stuck? Check your print queue to see if there are any previous jobs in there that seem to be stuck. This can happen sometimes if let’s say you renamed a document and the previous version doesn’t [...]
