Archive for January, 2009

Do I need a laser printer or an inkjet printer?

In the early days, the difference between laser printers and inkjet printers were huge which has been gradually lessened these days to a level where it is sometimes complicated to set apart these two. Laser printers were preferred because of its fast and high quality prints but the quality of the inkjet printers have been improved close to the quality of a laser printer at remarkably lower price. You can determine whether a laser printer or an inkjet printer would be suitable for you by following the general rule “the lower the cost of the printer, the more costly is the running expense”. However, this could depend on the quantity of the print you are going to make.

A simple example can make things clear about an inkjet printer. Let’s consider a Canon i320 color bubble jet printer that usually costs around £30 and additional £10 for every time you change the cartridge that can produce around 170 pages. Now, if you print only 7 pages a day, the total number would be 2100 pages over the year, which means you have to spend more than 4 times the price of the printer for a year as maintenance expense. Moreover, as a multifunctional printer, inkjets are not recommended at all when you need large volume print outs like label printing considering the slow print rate, average print quality and encountering frequent cartridge error messages.

A recent study has shown that last year around 1.85 million laser printers were sold, having a substantial growth in comparison with the previous year. A massive number of offices are using laser printers, however, they are not recommended only if you are going to use it as a photo printer or for printing fliers or broachers in huge volume consistently. By using the duplex unit, a brochure or leaflet printer can print back to back which is particularly a useful feature. Besides, adding a paper drawer and assigning different paper trays for different prints can optimize the cost of operation and in turns decrease the printer errors. Moreover, adding an Ethernet with a laser printer will allow users to avail it in a network.

Therefore, before buying a printer, keep all these constraints under consideration to ensure that your invest wouldn’t result a big mess for your business.

PC and Laptop Computer Insurance - Why and How?

Most often, you spend countless hours to shop for the best computer deal, getting the best software and agitating out quality products. But how often do you believe that your computer or laptop may get stolen? Don’t you think it’s vital to think about a laptop computer insurance considering such accidents may happen?

Research shows that over 600k laptop computers were stolen in the USA only in 2004, so, this is obvious that getting a laptop computer insurance now is really worthwhile looking into. Desktop computers can be insured with the household insurance as an itemized entry since it’s not going anywhere. But since we own notebooks for portability, getting them insured like a desktop is not possible. However, there are many insurance agencies that offer insurance for electronic products and getting a quote from a company that you can find by searching the internet would be a great start.

You may get full reimbursement for your lost laptop against any laptop computer insurance, but what about those of your workings that you have prepared by spending countless hours of hard work that only live in your notebook. In this connection, searching for an insurance agency with theft-recovery software in the internet would be helpful that work in various ways. There are many companies who offer a track it back sticker system that works with a philosophy that you should never personalize your laptop with a phone number.

Another type of laptop computer insurance covers data loss or misuse of software which is indeed an ingenious effort to insure your laptop. When a thief will access internet from your stolen laptop, it will silently send screenshots to the insurance headquarter at a regular interval. The main goal of this concept is to retrieve some personal information that the thief might be entering in a site.

In conclusion, doesn’t matter if you are carrying sensitive data in your laptop or not, laptop computer insurance would be always helpful for you from any point of view.