By Imanuel Henry

If you have business trip, you must be prepared all the printed documents you need to give to your client and make it sure you bring it in the trip day. But unfortunately, there is some document you need prepared soon in the way you will meet your client. What you wish will there is a printer ready for you.

But how you can bring your printer out from its desk? Mobile technology makes all things possible to carry on the go. But with printer, can it? The answer is “Yes, it can”. More mobility through mobile printers you can get now.

Mobile Printers can be defined as smaller version of inkjet printers which can fit in your backpack or briefcase. Usually, the mobile printers have power from battery and have USB port or memory card reader that enabling printing without cable connecting.

In recent year, much advancement has been made with mobile printers. There are mobile printers for printing receipt, label, document, photos, etc. with mobile printers; there is assistance that improves efficiency in many ways.

The improvement to make mobile printers more portable there is also decreased in weight and dimension. But we have to remember that there is a trade-off between weight and dimension and functionality. We want a smaller and lighter mobile printer. But this reduced size is not quite enough for battery space and paper size. It is affect in output and longevity.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth also bring the supported factor to mobile printers. With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth that can transfer the file wirelessly, the HP Mobile Printers become more useful. In other hand, Wi-Fi gives other advantages of security with the ability to manage device remotely. Both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth has its own individual benefits.

What Should We Consider Before Buying?
Five points you should consider before buying mobile printers are easy to use, reliable, battery lifetime and size, compatibility, and service and support. The phrase easy to use cannot be achieved from high-tech specification. It can be got from comforting factors of its size, weight, user interface design, and the message to show error and success operation.

Response message, the last factor, is related to the mobile printers’ reliability. The mobile printers should easily indicate what the user should do how they can know whether the printing is success or not, and how they can make their job done after failure.

Have an excellent after-buying service, the battery life time can still more than one year, and you have no difficultness to operate with its software are other things to consider.

The best way to get the right mobile printers is to choose the printers based on your application and your performance need not the specifications. Some application need more in printer size than printer speed, like on parking enforcement. And other application has the other way.

Conclusion
Reduced cost and increase efficiency is company needs nowadays. 460wf Mobile Printer will take some part of business process that improves optimization in company cash flow. It seems like we have a weapon to the battle of current economic market when we find the mobile technology on hand.

By Imanuel Henry

You can easily communicate through mobile phone or PDA and doing your task with your laptop on these days. Two examples before are about softcopy files then how about the hardcopy one? How we can print the files into paper when we need it away for home?
Mobile printer is the solutions. The mobile world has been more complete with the released of mobile printer. And many manufacturer printers are racing to win the competition of mobile printer. Let’s take a look three affordable types from HP and Canon.
HP H470wbt Officejet Mobile Printers
Feature:
- 22 pages per minute (ppm) in black/18 ppm in color
- 1200 x 1200 dpi Black and White prints and 4800 dpi color prints
- Print borderless 4 x 6 inch photos or up to 8.5 x 11 inch photos with borders
- 50-sheet foldable input paper tray and manual duplexer
- 13.4 x 7.28 x 3.25 inches
- Bundled with HP lithium-ion battery, the HP mobile printer sleeve, and HP Bluetooth wireless print adapter
- Compatible with Windows and Mac
You will get the best mobile printing on the go with this HP H470wbt. This mobile printer can gives you the ultimate in mobile printing functionality, flexibility and value. The bundled HP lithium-ion battery gets the printing up to 450 pages for true portability.
The print quality is good enough and you can’t compare it with the quality from laser printers. As we know there is a difference between inkjet and laser printers. But for text printing, this Mobile Bluetooth Printer has great done its job, although it is not high quality enough for photo printing.
This mobile printer has 5 pounds of weighing. It is quite small and light for printers. But you will still feel heavy if you bring it on your shoulder all day long.
Canon Pixma iP100
Feature:
- 12.7 x 2.4 x 7.2” in 4.4 pounds
- Compatible with Mac and Windows
- Lab-quality photo at 9600 x 2400 dpi
- Built-in IrDA and optional bluetooth
- PictBridge interface for direct connection from compatible digital cameras
The iP100 is perfect to businessmen that need to print the document and color presentation on the road, accompany traveling photographers, vacationers to make their own post cards, and anyone else who wants a high-quality print anywhere.
In installing this printer you will not get any difficultness. This mobile printer is quite nice and not producing loud sound when printing like other inkjet printers. The speed can be considered very fast, about 1 minute for a 3×5 and about 4 minutes for 8×10. You will get satisfying after-buying service from Canon Customer Service.
Oftentimes this mobile printer feed multiple papers when printing one page so you have to be patient. And it has to be a continuous series from iP100 where the Bluetooth is not optional anymore.
Conclusion
HP and Canon 460wf Mobile Printer has its own market and style. The choice is on yours. The best way to decide it is not just look from the specification but look deeply into your basic needs. Once the mobile printer meets your requirement, you have just found the greatest partner to accompany your day on the way.