When you are looking for a printer, you should concern on what type of printer that you are after. Therefore, you should know the kind of printers. There are two main groups of printers, the first is impact printer and the second is non-impact printer. Impact printer produces images and text when the pins on print head shoot and strikes the ink ribbon on the paper, non-impact printer produces graphics ant text without striking the paper. It can also being categorized by the method or print technology that each printer has. There are inkjet printers, dot matrix printers, thermal printers and laser printers.
The first type of printers is Dot matrix printers is a kind of printer which is usually use for print out the amounts of large text, but if you compared to any other types of printers the dot matrix printer is more noisy. The second is Inkjet printers are the most used printers by home users or small business because the price is cheaper compared to other printers. Ink jet printer or it is almost similar to solid ink printers that use solid sticks of ink. It place small drops of ink to the paper, and then it produces an image by using a series of nozzles. The third is laser printers or LED printers are work technically; the printers use a light-emitting diode display as a light source in the print head. These types of printers are usually used by medium business and large business. The last is thermal printers that mostly used by publishing companies as these printers produce high quality printouts.