Five Key points to consider before buying a printer:

Here is a small secret which is very difficult to find it on the internet or from any one else. Because there are hundreds of Printer reviews on you-tube but no one says it clear that if a printer can really print on all the paper. And here is the answer,

There is no one printer which can print on all the paper

When you want to buy a printer, firstly you have to decide on the product you have to sell. For example, if you want to sell Laptop stickers, you will need a eco-solvent printer which is the only printer which can be used to print on vinyl paper. Or if you want to sell greeting cards with your art on it, then you would need a good digital/laser printer which can print on card stocks. If you want to sell your arts on canvas, then there is a different printer for it. So the important point here is to understand your product and the paper you want to print on.

I still went ahead and bought some copier paper which was 100GSM (GSM is “Gram per square meter” which is used to measure the paper weight) and tried to print on it using my ink tank printer. It printed out beautifully with my designs on it but I can see the design from the back side of the paper. This is because the ink tank printer uses Inks to print unlike laser print which is printed using toner. A toner uses powder and heat to print and because of this, the print doesn’t leak behind the paper. Therefore one cannot print on copier paper using an ink tank printer. It can be printed using a laser printer so that it doesn’t leak.

I also came to know that Canon has more models of Laser or digital printers compared to Epson. So when you are researching printers, try to have an open mind to compare all the models between different brands.