Top 10 LED Printers

A high-quality printer with support for 4-color LED printing, dressed in a formal plastic case to match all Xerox office models. Allows you to print documents at a speed of 12 pages per minute, which is the most modest result in the ranking of the best. However, in terms of quality, it is vastly superior to most competitors.

According to user reviews, the Xerox Phaser 6020 resource is designed to print up to 30,000 pages per month, accepting paper with a density of 60 to 220 grams per cubic meter. At the same time, the resource of the cartridges (black and color) is enough to output 2000 and 1000 pages, respectively. As a pleasant bonus to the available capabilities, manufacturers have equipped the printer with a wi-fi receiver, thereby leveling a slight bias in price towards optimal values.

The device can print on plain paper with a density of 60-163 g/m². Copes with non-standard media: film, glossy and matte paper, envelopes, cards, labels. In principle, the Brother color LED printer is quite suitable for both home and business (the photodrum resource is 18,000 pages). HL-L3230CDW supports AirPrint, a wireless printing technology for Apple technology on iOS and OS X systems. PostScript is a special page description language that transmits image information not pixel by pixel, but in the form of a program with a complete description of all document elements.

Judging by the reviews of the owners, the model can be called the best in terms of comfort in work. Another plus is the possibility of double-sided printing.Only fans of the Linux OS should be tense: some of the settings are missing in the drivers, and instead of the name of the paper, you will see incomprehensible characters. On other operating systems, the drivers work correctly. Graphics, hand-drawn images, tutorials and postcards are of the highest quality. The most demanding users complain about printed photos: there are not enough halftones, graininess is noticeable.

In addition to the attractive price, this printer has impressive performance and performance with the ability to connect to a personal computer via Wi-Fi connection. Print speed Xerox Phaser 3052NI reaches 26 pages per minute. This is not the most outstanding result, but the difference in quality with a similar laser model is quite noticeable. The print resource per month is 30 thousand copies - for home use, such a resource will be very redundant, but for a small office it will be optimal.

As in the case of laser models, the device needs preheating to start working: fortunately, the delay time is only 14 seconds. Another advantage of the Phaser 3052NI is its power consumption. In standby mode, the LED printer consumes only 2 watts of power, which makes it the most economical in its category. But, unfortunately, the limitation on the color of printing does not allow to put it on a higher level.

The next line of the rating goes to another giant of LED color printers, the brainchild of the Japanese company OKI - the C532dn model. The “seriousness” of this printer knows no bounds: its filling contains a 1024 MB memory module, thanks to which the LED light can easily deal with large volumes of documents. Another important and obviously winning parameter is the printing resource - in one month the OKI C532dn can print up to 60 thousand pages, which makes it suitable for both intensive home use and small and medium-sized offices.

The printer's print speed is 30 pages per minute at a resolution of 1200x1200 dpi for both color modes. Not enough, but for small printing purposes, such values ​​\u200b\u200bwill be enough. But the warm-up parameter before printing let us down a little: the device takes about 27 seconds to bring itself into working condition. High power consumption can also be attributed to the category of negative nuances, but for devices of this level this is quite normal.

A notable feature of this model is support for PCL 5c, PCL 6. Printer Command Language (abbreviated as PCL) is a printer control language, and the more fonts are installed on the device, the higher the speed and quality of text printing will be. 87 fonts is an excellent indicator for working with standard documentation.The manufacturer has provided the ability to print A3 format (297 × 420 mm), that is, it will not be difficult to organize an office presentation or print a drawing.

Of the minuses, we immediately note the lack of a USB cable in the package. Of the benefits - work with paper weighing up to 256 g / m², low power consumption: standby 13 W, working 680 W. PostScript is not supported, that is, the document for printing is transmitted in the old fashioned way, in the format of information for each point of the image instead of the full program description of the document. Also, not all Internet users consider OKI's pricing policy to be fair. 70 thousand rubles for a printer for an average office cannot be called the most pleasant cost. But the brand has fans in 120 countries around the world who recognize that the price matches the quality of the products.

The Ricoh SP C360DNw is one of the smartest mid-office devices. Its printing capabilities are excellent: up to 75 thousand pages per month. The print speed depends on the media format and color, the specifications indicate 30 pages per minute for black-and-white sheets 210x297 mm and the same for color texts and pictures on A4 format. The printer is ready to use in 20 seconds the first time you turn it on, the best in its category. The first black-and-white print can be visually assessed after 7.20 seconds, to obtain a color one will need to wait 8.60 seconds. This speed is possible thanks to the 88PA6270 processor with a frequency of 1200 MHz.

The advantages are succinctly described by users in the reviews.There is a convenient display to simplify workflows, and decent quality 4-color LED printing on any material. The paper weight range, by the way, is significantly expanded in comparison with analogues: the device easily copes with a density of 56-220 g/m2. You can also directly connect digital cameras and video cameras to this model for direct printing. Consider that considerable dimensions (400x360x515 mm) with a device weight of 32 kg require the allocation of a special place in the office.

Another representative of the Phaser line from Xerox still got to the leading position. The 6510DN model is a successful combination of low price and excellent performance, which naturally resulted in universal praise and prioritization of the device over its competitors.

Despite the fact that the developers decided to slightly increase the threshold for maximum paper weight (from 162 to 220 grams per square meter), they managed to maintain key characteristics at a competitive level. The print speed is 28 pages per minute with a quality of 1200x2400 dpi. The printer starts up without warming up, but there is a 12 second wait before the first print comes out. There is a support function for ArtPrint, which greatly simplifies the life of the owners of "apple" gadgets. The print resource is 50,000 copies per month - not much, but enough for medium-sized offices.

In general, it will not be possible to briefly note all the positive nuances - the device turned out to be of very high quality, which won the recognition of a large number of office workers.

Unlike the more expensive and functional leader of the category, OKI C712dn is designed to solve problems of a slightly different kind. The main advantage of this printer is a high degree of reliability, which only other Japanese brands can compete with.

To put it bluntly, the OKI C712dn is an LED printer for serving "near-large" offices. The fact is that both in terms of resource and overall print quality, its applicability is limited to formal firms with a decent, but not intensive document flow. This device allows you to print up to 100 thousand copies per month, the quality of which will not exceed 1200x600 dpi. In such a situation, the print speed, equal to 36 pages per minute, looks like a kind of payoff, which also has a number of "pitfalls". One of these is the warm-up time of the printer: before starting printing, it takes as much as 60 seconds, which does not fit in with the concept of a “modern printer” at all. Be that as it may, OKI C712dn sells and buys very briskly, sometimes gets a portion of the negative, but in general it maintains the brand of a good device for formal printing.

The world-renowned manufacturer XEROX has developed the ROWE range to meet specific engineering challenges. The device prints large-format technical documentation in black and white: plans, diagrams, drawings, graphs.The large floor model works with tracing paper, film, parchment, fluorescent, matte, recycled and transparent paper, as well as rolls from 40 to 110 g/m2. Interacts only with the Windows operating system. A large 23'' color liquid crystal display is included, but a proprietary scanner for installation on top of the case must be purchased separately to create a full-fledged multifunctional machine for printing/copying/scanning.

Reviews are few, since this device is not for the home, and not every company can afford to buy equipment for almost two million. But the owners are delighted with the wide possibilities of settings and configurations. When assembled as a complete kit, it will solve any given problem in the field of large-format monochrome printing using reliable LED technology.

The Xerox VersaLink C7000N is a powerful color printer with A3 capability as its main feature. This indirect increase in versatility has a huge impact on overall functionality: print speed on A3 is 19 pages per minute. The increase in the size of consumables naturally affected the hardware of the printer: the frequency of the installed processor is 1050 MHz, and the memory module has a capacity of 2048 MB. Such high performance allows you to solve the global tasks of providing streaming services to large offices, for which, in fact, the VersaLink C7000N was created.

Judging by user reviews, the main advantages of this printer are high print resolution (1200x2400 dpi), a decent resource equal to 153,000 copies per month, and the presence of a booklet maker, but this feature is rarely used. Given not the highest cost in the class, the Xerox VersaLink C7000N can easily compete for the title of the best in its competitive category.