Special purpose printer

Name	Definition	Function	Application	Advantages	Disadvantages
Photo Printer	A photo printer is a color printer that can produce images that mimic the color range (gamut) and resolution of prints made from photographic film.	A photo printer can produce images of multiple colors.	are used in many manufactures and industries, including schools, business, design and all human activities.	-A portable photo printer is easy to transport and doesn’t have to be connected to a computer. -Equipped with slots for reading digital media cards, or memory cards, these printers also typically have parallel and USB ports. -a photo printer can be more expensive than a regular inkjet and may not print as quickly	- It wastes ink therefore, creating a small problem financially because the ore photos you print, the more ink cartridges you have to pay for, costing you.
Label Printer	label printer is a computer printer that prints on self-adhesive label material and/or card-stock (tags).	can create professional labels for all your label printer needs: create labels for envelopes, packages, file folders, CD/DVDs and more.	used in those types of activities where cost-effective yet attractive way to label all of your stuff.	- the amount of labels that can be applied to individual rolls - without the use of label liner, quantities per roll can be increased by up to 40%! - label printing involves printing pressure sensitive self adhesive labels that do not have a release liner.	- labels so often seen on today's products simply cannot be produced with label printing and as a result the attraction of the technology is significantly lowered. - When introducing label printing to its workflow a company will more often than not have to invest in new labelling machinery to apply the linerless labels to its products.
Portable Printer	A portable photoprinter is a stand-alone inkjet printer designed to produce 4 x 6 inch prints from digital cameras.	allow people to browse and edit their photos, as can be done on a computer.	are used in many industries, offices, banks and manufactories.	-A portable printer should be easy to set up and use. -if you need to have a printer with good print speed the new generation of portable printers are reasonably fast with speed as high as 22 ppm. - don’t even need installation software and come with plug-and-play feature.	-their print quality is not as good as the desktop counterparts, but still quality wireless portable printers have good print resolutions.
Plotters	is a computer printer for printing vector graphics.	can draw complex line art, including text and fast produces very large drawings or color high-resolution vector-based artwork when computer memory was very expensive and processor power was very limited	used in applications such as computer-aided design, though they have generally been replaced with wide-format conventional printers.	- Plotters are faster than other types of printing machines, including the desktop printer. -A plotter can be hooked up to any computer. -The precision of the plotter is the main advantage for engineering drawings.	- Plotters can take over half an hour to produce a print, depending on the size and complexity of the image being produced. - Although plotter printers are able to reproduce a number of images, they are not able to print photo-quality images like inkjet printers. -Plotter printers can cost quite a bit more than other printers. -For cramped work areas, plotters take up a lot of space.
Large-Format Printers	are generally accepted to be any printer with a print width between 17" and 100".	used to print banners, posters and general signage and in some cases may be more economical than short-run methods such as screen printing.	Are used in business and mainly ind industrial processes other:(printing drawings, documents and presentations are accurate, bold and compelling, email solutions for technical document environments etc, archiving and distributing technical maps, drawings, renderings, posters and more.	-Large format color printers are most beneficial for their capability to produce large format output - capability of large format color printers to print continually. -capability to print the most beautiful and high-quality large format output.	-the most immediate disadvantage that you will see about large format color printers is their cost. - cost of repair can be very high.
Braille Printers	is a printer, necessarily an impact printer, that renders text as tactile Braille cells.	Can print short documents for home or office use, and others are used to mass-produce copies of braille books and magazines.and make copies of electronic documents on paper in a format that is readable by blind people.	are used by everyone from individual computer users to large corporations that produce books, magazines, and other widely distributed publications, requiring fast, high-volume embossing capabilities.	- Download easy to use Braille font for pharmaceutical packaging. - Electronic braille notetakers provide a powerful alternative to mechanical notetakers such as the Perkins Brailler or slate and stylus	- can cost roughly anywhere from US $2,000 to $80,000, depending on the user's needs.. - they typically print on heavy weight paper and require more pages than print, they are much slower and noisier. - price of braille printer is directly related to the volume of braille production 80,000 for larger volume production.