subject: How To Choose Extra Features For Your Photocopier [print this page] How To Choose Extra Features For Your Photocopier
When considering buying photocopiers today there are certain features that machines have as standard. In many cases there are many features that you will be charged extra for. We are going to we look at features that may well be standard on some photocopier machines, but which you can then include on to yours afterwards.
You should be conscious of some of the additional features available are the types which will just be plugged into your existing machine for you to upgrade it. Whilst there are others that need the services of an engineer in order to fix them to your machine. So before considering adding any additional features onto your copier find out what work is involved to do so.
1. If you have a digital copier then with the addition of a printer module and network card to yours this may also become laser printer. It has the capacity to produce the same amount of copies as it would if you were using it just as a copier. So if you have a five page two sided stapled document to produce you can do so whilst still sat at your desk.
2. Another feature that numerous people find useful now to have on their copiers is the ability for it to scan documents as well. Which means that everything can be stored within the copiers system before it really needs copying. So once all the pages have been scanned in the machine are able to be left to run whilst you get on with other tasks that need your attention.
The types of add ons which can help to convert a copier into a scanner as well are optical character recognition (OCR) software. This then turns papers into electronic documents which one can edit and allows you to scan them directly as an attachment to e-mails or to place on your computer desktop.
3. Many photocopiers today provide you with the feature that allows you to equally send as well as receive faxes from it. As it comes with a document feeder this gives you the facility for you to send multi-page faxes if you wish to or just single pages. Any incoming faxes will be automatically printed out as they are received and may well be transferred to a different output tray from that used for copying. Some machines even give you the chance if they are networked to your PC to be able to allow you to send faxes directly from it.
4. A few of the more complicated photocopiers now come with the feature that allows image editing to take place. This simply means that automatic page numbering can take place as the copies are being created or watermarks can be added. Some machines even allow the copies to have a date added on to them. Plus they may well have the facility that allows the images scanned to be rotated. This then means that they match using the paper supply available in the machine so you aren't having to waste time setting them up before hand.
Above we have considered some of the additional features that may come as standard on photocopiers today, or which you can add on at a later date. But of course one of the best features that most copiers now come with is that they save energy whilst not in use.
