Best professional printer: rating and reviews

Printers have long appeared on the market. Their number increases every year in a geometric progression. Users find models for themselves for home or professional use. The simplest devices are suitable for printing documents or abstracts. Expensive models are best shown in photo printing and text output in wide formats.

A professional printer is less popular, but it always finds its buyer. So these devices are interested in large companies or small offices. These models are distinguished by the quality of printing, multifunctionality and high speed.

Selection

Select a professional printer for printing is not difficult. It is enough to determine the goals and the manufacturer. First, the buyer must understand what he needs: a printer or an MFP. If the device is chosen for the home, then it is not worthwhile to look at the multifunctional device. If you need both a printer and a scanner, it's better and cheaper to buy them separately.

For a small office, you can also look at semi-professional models. So the best is a laser multifunction printer with a black and white seal. Of course, if you do not need to do photo printing, but only photocopy and print documents.

For a large office or large companies, a professional laser printer is usually chosen. It is fast, multifunctional, although it takes up a lot of space, performs a whole list of tasks.

Rating

If you are going to be engaged in photoprinting or photocopying, naturally, you will have to choose from expensive models. It is better to look at laser devices, although there are professional printers among string printers. Also, such models include photo printers and multifunction printers. The rating of such devices is not easy, but we will consider the most popular models of last year.

Among laser printers stood out:

• Kyocera FS-9530DN.
• Ricoh SP C250DN.
• HP Color LaserJet Professional CP5225 (CE710A).
• Ricoh SP C440DN.

Among inkjet printers:

• Epson L1800.
• HP PageWide 352dw.

And for photo printing, the Canon PIXMA Pro-1 is perfect. This is a subjective rating based on feedback from users and positions on the Internet.

Two black and white alternatives

The first in our rating was a professional printer Kyocera FS-9530DN. This is a large device with an impressive cost of 108 thousand rubles. It can rightly be called the printing center, since in just 1 minute it prints 51 pages of A4 format. It works not with cartridges, but with toner. It is in the container. The amount of ink is roughly enough for 40 thousand pages in the usual mode, in economical it is possible to use up to one hundred thousand A4 sheets per month.

This laser printer is easily customizable for the purpose of the office or company. It can work in a specific configuration. If necessary, supplemented by special finishers, which, for example, are responsible for stapling papers or performing puncher work.

Another large model was the printer Ricoh SP C250DN. Concerning the previous, the cost of this is only 20 thousand rubles. Naturally, for home use it is expensive, but for a small office it is ideal. It prints slower than the previous model - only 20 pages per minute, but this is also an excellent result.

Reviews of Kyocera and Ricoh

It is clear that Kyocera could not cost less than 100 thousand rubles, but that's what became the main drawback of the device. Also, in some cases, there was a lack of built-in memory, you had to buy more.

The printer has many advantages. There are a number of functions and configurations that are customized to the needs of the office. Toner is enough for large volumes of printing. The design of the model is reliable, except for the corotron brush. Users noted the low cost of the print.

Ricoh is an easier option. This is indicated by its size, cost and speed of printing. However, users noted the existence of three ways to connect, two-sided printing and a second 500-sheet paper tray. The only thing that turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for some was the ability to use paper with a density of up to 160 g / m ² .

Color options

Professional color printers are no less popular. Not always the office can do with the usual black and white print. Sometimes it is necessary to create color booklets and other printing products. One of these office workers was the printer Ricoh SP C440DN. The first thing that catches your eye is a rather high cost of 90 thousand rubles. But using the device will show you that every penny justifies itself.

The model is fast - it creates 40 pages per minute. Works only with A4 format, RAM up to 1 GB. In a month can work with 150 thousand sheets. It has several types of interface: USB, SD, Ethernet, WiFi. Copies with a wide range of fonts and permissions.

Professional printer A3 HP Color LaserJet Professional CP5225 (CE710A) belongs to the same category. Per minute prints 20 pages in black and white or in color. In a month works with 75 thousand sheets. The manufacturer recommends not to exceed the monthly print volume of 5 thousand pages.

Ricoh and HP Reviews

Both devices perform well in large offices. Easily cope with the required load. Printing speed is good. The main disadvantage of both devices is the price. Not all offices will be able to spend 90 thousand rubles on one such device. But their work justifies the cost. HP Color LaserJet Professional CP5225 works with A3, A4, A5, A6, RA3, SRA3, B4, B5, 10x15 cm, and Ricoh SP C440DN easily copes with large volumes of sheets per month.

Inkjet Printers

For a long time, users have realized that an inkjet professional printer is a good alternative to a laser printer. In addition to the fact that the cost of the former is several times smaller, their capabilities are much greater.

The Epson L800 is one of those models that, with its size and cost, makes it doubtful that it will be able to compete with laser printers. But in practice it easily bypasses them in terms of printing speed and capabilities. CISS has long been revolutionary and significantly reduced the cost of the print. This model prints 38 pages per minute in color, copes with the highest resolutions, photo prepares in just 12 seconds. The cost of this printer is 40 thousand rubles.

HP PageWide 352dw fell into the rating for good reason. He has his own chip, thanks to which he becomes even faster than the previous model. 45 pages per minute are easily created thanks to a fixed block of heads. The price of this model is only 15 thousand rubles. It is relatively compact and can work with Wi-Fi Direct.

Reviews about inkjet printers

These two models became the most popular last year. Of course, their main advantage is the same system of continuous ink supply. And nevertheless, excellent cartridge resources, speed and compact size allowed these champions to break out among their competitors.

Photos at home

A professional printer for printing photos Canon PIXMA PRO-1 belongs to inkjet. This is a popular model, which is considered the flagship among competitors. The device was equipped with 12 separate ink tanks, which made each photo saturated, bright and realistic. Perhaps the cost of 56 thousand rubles will scare off someone, but in fact the images get an accurate color rendition, which is appreciated by photographers and artists. The manufacturer insists that even after 100 years of photography will remain the same "succulent" and bright. But this statement is still difficult to verify.

Reviews of Canon

This compact device has a nice design. He has good basic technical support. Easily copes with the sheet formats up to A3 inclusive. The disadvantage was the lack of wireless networks and expensive consumables.

Bulk printing

Well, it's worth talking about a professional 3D printer. Three-dimensional printing has become popular not so long ago, that's why almost any model is considered professional, because there are no such devices for home use yet. Now all 3D devices are divided into layered direction and stereolithography (SLA). The latter option is three times more expensive and most precisely fulfills the task.

SLA-printers are not so many. For 330 thousand rubles you can buy FORMLABS Form1 +. To implement the plan, you need to connect the printer to the PC, and the process of printing in offline mode will create the desired product. The main advantage of this model is easy to use and reliable design. Print quality relative to competitors is high, although not perfect. The minuses of this and similar devices are the high cost of consumables and the irreversibility of the process in the event of program failures.