Printers

There are 5 main types of printers:-

Dot Matrix - These usually come in either 9 or 24 pin. Not used a great deal now except for invoicing systems etc. These now tend to be quite expensive. Not very good at graphics due to the low resolution and tend to quite slow. Popularly available in black and tri colour.

Golf Ball - So called because they use a golf ball print head which hold all the available characters. Very rarely seen now as they could only print set characters in a set font. Usually can only print single colour.

Inkjet - These are the most popular printers now because the better ones can print near photo quality photographs and print on all types of media such as cd's and dvd's.They are also for the majority very cheap. These can usually print the full spectrum of colour's.

Thermal - Most fax machines used to use thermal printing technology. These printers require special heat sensitive paper in order to produce a document which is quiet expensive. Tend to be used for specialist applications.

LED/Laser - These printers use toner (Plastic pellets) which are melted onto the paper using a heated roller. Usually quite expensive to buy but much cheaper than inkjet's to run. I.e. Cheaper per page. They are also usually quite fast so this is the type used in most offices. These are available in single colour (black) or full colour. These are similar to photocopiers apart from the image is burned onto a light sensitive drum by laser/LED rather than a light reflected from a document. Due to the low cost and wide availability of colour laser printers these are now the most popular for anything apart from home use.

Popular printer manufactures include HP, Toshiba, Xerox, Epson and Okidata.

Chorley's leading computer shop for Business and home computer repair. Service and Repair of PC's and Apple Mac . When we were looking for premises for 1 Stop Tech shop we had a number of considerations. We wanted to be located in a strategic area at the centre of the motorway network that allowed PJR Micro Ltd to service our business and domestic customers easily and cost effectively. We therefore chose Chorley as this location. As we have continued expanding we quickly realised that our Chorley shop was to small for our purposes. We therefore started looking for new larger premises. There was nothing suitable within the immediate area so we expanded our search further afield, and located a building in Whelley, Wigan which was ideally suited for our purposes which we moved to in 2009. As our business is now going more and more data based we need a premises with fast backbone connection and as the fastest speeds we can obtain at Wigan is 3mb we have amalgamated all our business under one roof at our business service center at Coppull Where we have a 15mb and a 11mb backbone connection. Our Business customers range in areas from Liverpool to Wilmslow and Kendal to York and we have domestic customers all over Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Our new computer shop and premises have extensive offroad parking so short distance to carry sickly pc's.

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