The Bottom Line
Pros
- Very small format.
- Roll thermal paper perforated for easy separation.
- Easy installation, drivers worked well.
- Great battery life.
- Bluetooth and/or Infrared available.
Cons
- Cost is a bit on the high side.
- Some would consider no color printing a downer.
Description
- Thermal printing doesn't use ink or cartridges. Low per-page cost for printing.
- Takes individual sheets, perforated continuous sheets, or rolled perforated paper.
- Perforated roll lets me tear off my documents like paper towels.
- Pretty fast, at more than 3 pages per minute...about three to four minutes for a full purchase contract.
- Just the printer is only 10 inches, by three inches, by an inch and a half.
- With the special holder to hold and dispense rolled paper, it's only 10 x 5.75 x 3 inches.
- I fit a netbook, the printer, and the paper holder dispenser all into a small netbook case, smaller than most purses.
Guide Review - Your Mobile Real Estate Printing Needs Without Ink or Toner
It's a thermal printer, so you have to use thermal paper, but I'm getting the rolls of 100 perforated 8.5 inch wide sheets for about $30, thus $0.06 per page. It's only black and white, but that's what all of my contract printing needs need. With the battery, I need only the small USB cable to connect to the netbook. If I had wanted to pay more, I could have gotten Bluetooth, but I didn't feel that the thirty seconds to connect it was a problem.
The drivers were easy to install. The setup wasn't difficult, and I've got it printing and stopping where the perforation is right at the printer outlet, just like a paper towel dispenser. I can let it print a ten page contract, tear off the entire run, then separate at the perforations. It's fast, tiny, and quite handy for real estate field contract printing needs.
