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Advantage and Disadvantage of Printers Portable
By Imanuel Henry

What means of printers portable are printers which are small, having battery for the power as a compliment for electricity and designed for computer user who travel a lot. The printers portable not just for photography purposed only. Printers portable are capable to print document, envelopes, photos, or acetates.
The printers portable are varied in model and largely confined to printing volume and speed. But in general, the printing volume capability is impact to its size and weight.
Nowadays, printers portable are popular among the market. For both personal user and business travelers these devices can mean a lot. These printers portable are having advantage and disadvantage which we will discuss below.
Advantages
As the first and be the foremost advantage, printers portable are easy to carry wherever you go. They usually weigh around one until five pounds. You can fit it on the briefcase along with your laptop computer and print the document as fast as you can wherever you are. And if you are business traveler, you can print the presentation or other important document directly and deliver it at time to your client.
Second, printers portable can be turned-on from Lithium Ion battery as a compliment from AC power adapter. Therefore you do not need to find a place to plug the adaptor in the power source.
Third, the printers portable nowadays work easily with Operating System like both Windows and Linux. So it is getting simple to connect it to your laptop computer.
Last, printers portable produce high-quality output at very fast speed. Their quality can be said to be equivalent with the any other printers which are not portable.
Disadvantages
What you cannot do with hp portable printer is print a large poster. The capability of printing document in letter, legal, envelopes, cards, and photos size can be a disadvantage if you want to print larger size.
Second, you cannot find the printers portable which using laser technology. Therefore, there are only thermal and inkjet printers portable. And please keep in mind that inkjet cartridges will cost more than laser toner cartridges. So you have to allocate more budgets for ink cartridges.
This condition also affect in the printing production. Most printers portable offer resolution around 300 dpi. It is quite enough for printing text and adequate graphic. But some a few also offer 600×300 or 720×360 dpi. This result is good enough but cannot be compared with the 600×600 resolution from laser printer.
And forth, to buy the printers portable are not expensive; the price is between $200 and $350. But please keep in mind that the cost per page is more expensive. And sometimes you need to purchase additional battery, quick charger, or car-lighter adapter. That will cost $60 until $100 more. And if you use Mac laptop, there are only a few printers portable that work with Macintosh Powerbook. For solving this problem, you will need to buy a Mac-compatible cable that also means additional cost.
Last, although these printers portable weight maximal is five pounds, you will find that it is heavy and bulky addition for your baggage. And you have to take additional weight in your suitcase, double than the usual.
Conclusion
The photo printers portable are having its pros and cons as you can see above. But this devices is very useful if you often on the road. You can get the ease of printing in anywhere you are. If you are so interested in printers portable and deciding to buy it, most of large computer manufacturer like Canon, HP, and Epson produce portable printer in a great design with competitive price.