The Advantages of a Multifunction Printer

If you are planning to turn your own room into your home office for your own productive purposes, you need to have the right office equipment in addition to the office furniture. No office space is complete without a computer system whether it is a desktop or a laptop. There should also be a printer, copying machine, scanner and other special equipment depending on the tasks that are needed to be done. One of the main concerns of having all that equipment is that it takes up a lot of space and that can affect productivity especially when mission critical operations are needed. Getting a multifunction printer is one way to solve this problem.
Getting a multifunction printer won't just save you space, but multifunction printers also have a number of good advantages to the office user. Some may not be very obvious until you really get one for yourself.

Great for Power Saving

With a multifunction printer, you can save power in two different ways. Rather than having a printer, scanner and copier all on at the same time, you can save a bit of power if you turn on the same device when you need to do something that the multifunction printer is capable of doing. The other way is that since it is just one device, only one plug and USB port needs to be used to make room for other devices. This is ideal also for plugging into routers that have USB ports.

Better than the Sum of its Parts

If you stumble across a good brand that is proficient in scanning, printing and copying you can avoid the risk of getting three different devices that have questionable reliability. This can save you some money and the combined features of the three works better together since it is the same product. It is worth remembering that some multifunction printers have fax capabilities as well to make them more valuable.

Excellent for Networking

It is easy to share a printer on a network these days, but if you place a multifunction printer on the network instead, you are basically sharing most of its powerful features without any setup or configuration troubles. Multifunction printers are ideal for environments where there are many computers connected to each other.

Easy to Setup and Maintain

Again this depends on the type and brand of the multifunction printer, but if you do enough research in finding the best one, you should have an all in one device that sets up in no time and the maintenance is much easier than taking care of the separate devices. Driver problems aren't much of an issue either since everything should be installed using the software supplied on a single CD rather than multiple CD's if the devices are separate.

Multifunction printers are not very useful for the average home users that occasionally print or scan, but office users will save a great deal of time in getting things done if the printer performs well in all areas.