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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Three Online Calculators You Can Use to Calculate Your Printing Costs
Do you want to know how much your printer will cost you to run? We’ve done some research to get you some handy tools on the Internet that can help you calculate your running printer costs, compare two printers to see which one is more economical for you or help you decide which printer to buy based on your unique printing needs. Here are three Online Calculators You Can Use to Calculate Your Printing Costs: Printer Comparison Calculator. Offered by PCWorld this nifty calculator lets you compare two printers and see which one is going to be the most cost-effective choice for you based on your printing needs. Some of the information you need to enter includes, your estimated printing volume, the printers you are currently considering to buy, and the approximate page yield of the cartridges you plan to use. Go to the Printer Comparison Calculator. Printer Running Cost Calculator. This handy tool by Consumer.org allows you to estimate your printer running costs based on some popular inkjet printer models. It helps you to decide whether a cheap printer is sufficient for your needs or if perhaps you should invest in a more expensive printer with low running costs. [...]
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 [...]
Do You Own an HP Printer? Learn How to Print Documents Securely and Easily – Part 2
Following up on our previous post about how to secure your documents while printing in your HP printer, this post offers information on some of the major threats that most companies face when it comes to exposing sensitive information and how to protect your information from getting stolen, as published by ENX magazine. Note: Although this article is geared towards HP printer users, the guidelines can be followed by users of other printer brands as well, and are applicable for both laser and inkjet printer users. Before we begin let’s do a quick overview of some of the major threats most companies face when it comes to printer document security: actual printer documents getting stolen from the printer itself, the stealing of a printer hard disk, unprotected printers run the risk of having passwords stolen and print jobs re-routed, unsecured networks can be hacked and any potential hacker can send fax and e-mail via your printer to anyone globally and the threat of a “network sniffer” stealing your information when it is transmitting from your PC to your printer. To protect the print environment, a company’s strategy must contain methods that will include printing and imaging products, the network, and [...]
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Do You Own an HP Printer? Learn How to Print Documents Securely and Easily – Part 1
Securing your documents while printing in your HP printer or any printer is important to make sure your confidential documents remain private from prying eyes. This is especially important if your printer is shared across several departments or used by many people. There are many ways to secure your printing including setting up password-protection, setting up firewalls, using a secure WIFI network and more. However here are a few simple steps offered by ENX Magazine, you can implement immediately to print a document securely in your HP printer: How to securely print a document using an HP printer: 1. Go to file menu and click “Print” 2. Navigate to “Properties” tab and then click on the “Destination” tab 3. Under “Destination” features, click on “Job Retention” and then go to “Options” 4. Under “Job Retention Mode”, go to “Private Job” 5. Enter your name, give a name to your print job, and then enter your unique 4 digit pin. 6. Go to your printer, select job and enter your unique pin code. HP and Microsoft have also identified a set of major threats that most people face when it comes to having their documents exposed and stolen. HP has identified [...]
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