The printing industry is without a doubt one of the biggest, most profitable, most important industries around today; every office, depending on the size, need at least one good printer. Technology has improved and evolved so much over the last decade or so, that is has changed the way we do every day business. We make use of physical filing systems, but not as much as we used to. Everything today in online: we store all our documents on our desktop computers and servers for easy access. We hardly keep any physical files any more.
Printers are also not only used for printing though, they are also used for faxing and scanning. These are known as multifunctional printing machines. These kinds of machines are ideal for office use, in particular small offices, as they have all three of these function incorporated into one machine; thus, only one of these are required among approximately ten people. These machines can also be connected to various users through a network, or can be used by one user via USB connection. They come in various sizes and shapes, and you can choose to have them print only black and white or colour, or even both.
Large format printers are used for precisely what the name suggest: large format printing and printing for any kind of printing, not just standard A4. They are used by bigger companies or offices, or companies that are particularly reliant on this kind of printing, like ad agencies.
Large format printing is still kind of new to the industry, but is being developed and evolving on a daily basis. Many printers now also have the function to block certain user to use colour printing while giving other user full access to both colour and black and white printing.
Some printers, large format printers included, are able to track what every user prints and also add time and date to the tracking process.
These are just some of the examples of just how much printing has evolved over the last couple of years. If we keep going at this pace, I can’t imagine what the daily printer would look like in a couple of years from now.
