Colour Laser Printers and LED Printers

Colour laser and LED printers offer low cost per page, high quality and high speed output.  When choosing a colour laser printer or colour LED printer, most people narrow their search by immediately deciding on the size of paper they will need to print on. For some a colour laser printer will only be required to produce A4 sized documents, sometimes only the front cover will need to be in colour. Yet for others A3 support and even A3+ (oversized A3) colour printing will be required. The ability of a colour laser printer or colour LED printer to print A3+ size allows users to see the crop marks which are displayed beyond the edges of the area of A3.

The choice of colour laser or LED printer is then often refined by the selection of which features the printer must support and those which may be required at a later date and are available as an option. For some, their colour laser printer will be at the heart of a workgroup used by many people; this would necessitate the printer supporting a network connection.  Printers which have this ability  do not require a PC to act as the print server that other users send their documents to before being printed.

For customers requiring a greener option, their choice of colour laser printer or LED printer might include a printer with duplexing capability, which is the ability to print on both sides of the paper automatically, thus reducing the number of sheets of paper used by up to half.

Another choice a buyer might make is whether to choose a colour laser printer or a colour LED printer.  Both of these types of printers offer high speed output and use similar technology,  the print head being the main difference.  One uses a laser to produce an image, the other a series of LEDs to produce it.  The technology is so similar for the most part that many people that have LED printers refer to them as a colour laser printer.

For more information about the differences between laser printer and LED printer technology see our main printer page.

Below are a range of guides to help you locate the most suitable colour laser printer or LED printer.