Mono Laser Printers

We stock a wide range of cheap monochrome laser printers here at 123ink.ie, as well as colour laser printers. Black and white laser printers are very efficient and are designed to print large print volumes, suitable for large offices or busy home offices. Print, copy, scan and fax documents with an all-in-one monochrome laser printer, or choose a small laser printer to suit your home office desktop. Choose from popular laser printer brands such as Brother laser printers, or HP laser printers. Keep in mind that our laser printers only come with a small amount of toner for a test print, so it's advised to buy a black and white toner for your laser printer so you can print without restraint. Opt for our cheap compatible toner here at 123ink.ie, to reduce your toner costs, all with a 100% guarantee. You can also grab a printer cable, as it's not included with the laser printer.
 

Whilst doing your research on what printer to get, you will inevitably come across the following question: Should I get an inkjet printer or a laser printer?
 

So here are some reasons to choose a laser printer:

• Laser printers, although often more expensive than inkjet printers upfront, tend to be a more economical option in the long run with its overall lower cost per page and faster print speeds.
• Laser printers are ideal for printing large volumes of documents. Toner cartridges can print thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of pages, which is what makes laser printers ideal for frequent office use.
• Laser printers don't dry out and are always ready to print, even if you go weeks in between print jobs.

How do laser printers work?

The main difference between a laser printer and an inkjet printer is that laser printers use toner cartridges, not ink cartridges. Toner is a dry powdery substance that is chemically created, and is placed inside a drum. The positively charged toner is attracted to the negatively charged imaging drum and sticks to these parts of the drum. Through an electrostatic process, a laser beam is passed back and forth over the negatively charged drum to define a charged image.The drum then selectively collects the electrically charged toner and transfers the image to paper, which is then heated and melted onto paper to create high precision prints.

We have all experienced electrostatic processes in our everyday lives, or what we refer to as 'electric shocks'. For example, we have all tried rubbing a balloon off of our hair, causing that static feeling, as well as causing your hair to stand up! This is due to opposite static charges building up both on your hair and the balloon, just the same as in the laser printing process.
Due to this process, laser printers are designed to withstand long term and frequent use and because of this, they make the perfect office printer. 

• One feature to look out for is the print speed- this will determine how fast the printer operates, and thus its printing efficiency. It will be defined by ppm (pages per minute). For an office setting, a speed of 20ppm-40ppm is pretty fast and efficient. A speed of over 40ppm is excellent for large print volumes.

What are some other features to look out for?

• Paper input tray- A large paper input tray saves you time, so you can spend more time focusing on your work, and less time on replacing the paper in the feeder. Some laser printers come with a paper tray capacity up to 1,000 sheets. You can also buy separate paper trays to increase the amount of paper you can store in the tray.
• ADF- ADF stands for Automtic Document Feeder and it means that the paper is fed into the printer automatically, eg. copying or scanning without having to manually insert paper, saving you valuable time.
• Duplex- With Duplex, you can print on both sides of the document, a very effective way to save paper and money.

Some further questions to ask yourself when buying a laser printer:
 

Do you require wifi? (a wireless laser printer) 

This means that you can connect your laser printer to your local wireless network without a USB cable or Ethernet cable. Wifi printers do not need cables and you can place your printer anywhere there is coverage, so you can connect more computers to the one printer.