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When you feel that you should have a printer, then the first question arises is that how to Buy a Printer? And this question itself has many questions that you just want to print documents or also want to print photos too? Its price, model, pros and cons etc. So you have to think about all these before buying a printer.

If you just want printing of your documents than you could have a mono laser printer, normally offering printing speed of 15-2oppm, and will give you crusty and spiky output. But if you want a color print than it’s not for you, you could go for some other option. As color laser printer’s price is decreasing considerably from last year. It can be good option for home or small office.

If you want to print photos as well then you could buy inkjet printer, better option for regular color printing like printing in Epson’s DuraBrite range. As its arrival of digital photography, everyone wants digital print because it gives good level of contrast, color space, tonal range and sharp quality image.

Before buying you should check that it can generate picture prints in different sizes (6×4, 7×5 A4 etc). Mostly photo printing inkjets have a built-in port PictBridge which allows you to direct print any well-matched camera. Other features in printers include a built-in memory card reader, a color menu and preview screen. The advantage of these features is that yow could simply insert the memory card of your camera and can have photo prints. Direct photo-printers can edit the pictures flexibly in standalone print mode by enabling image cropping, red-eye correction and other image enhancements.

Other option you could have is that you can buy such printer which fulfills your requirements of photo and document printer by the use of a single printer that will enable swapping of photo color cartridge for mono cartridge by shifting between six-ink and four ink-printing.

You would also have to take care of the price range for these printers. Mono-colored cartridge printers are cheaper then color cartridge printers. If you want the best quality print of your documents and photos then price range will be little increased. Personal color laser printer’s cost normally range from 1.5p per mono page and 6.5p for color. So you have to keep in view all the issues discussed while you start thinking that how to buy a Printer.