Sure, desktop printers can tackle all of those tasks with relative ease, but people now are shifting to laptops instead of full desktop computers. The benefits are obvious: most laptops today can take on their desktop counterparts in terms of computing power while still being portable to be carried anywhere. And so, many peripherals for the desktops are also shifting to augment the mobile computers. It is only natural then, that desktop printers follow suit and, and the result of this transformation: the portable Laptop Printer.

You could find many models of laptop printers today, and they can even match the print quality of desktop printers. The most common type of these is the inkjet printers, which sprays microscopic dots of ink on paper. The usual qualities of laptop printers are its small footprint, lightweight, portable design and usually a battery pack to power it. It can usually print up to legal-size paper in full color. Some of them can even be capable of printing to larger sizes of paper.

Most of the newer printers have features that make it a good companion for a laptop. One of this is wireless connectivity. Some printers have integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities, so if your laptop has Wireless LAN or Bluetooth, you could print your work out over the air, no wires needed and with Bluetooth’s connectivity, you could even print pictures straight from your mobile phone.

One of the best laptop printers nowadays is Canon ip100. This printer had all the good features that you expect from a printer. It could read the most common digital image from mobile phone. The only downside of this portable printer, it does not have an integrated car reader. However, you can take advantage of the infrared and Bluetooth, which will allow you to print files even you are on the road.

Canon Pixma ip100 models also come with PictBridge support. This allows your PictBridge-compliant Digital Camera and other devices to print directly when inserted to the appropriate USB port. This is a very good feature for rush printing of documents and pictures. You would just plug your camera on the printer and start printing the pictures you need. You can use the camera to control, which files you would print.

The laptop printers can best be viewed as a complement to your laptop computer. If you are on the road, and you need something to be printed out fast, then this is a really indispensable tool for you. You would get prints that are comparable to the bigger desktop printer while still being portable enough for you to take it wherever you need to go.