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When you are buying a printer, there is much more to be considered than the initial cost, and the same is even truer about a portable laptop printer. The quality of the print has to be at the top of your list, unless you are just printing notes for your own use. You will also want to consider if it has a car adaptor, does it require Bluetooth, how many pages it will print per charge, the size and weight of the printer, the size of prints it makes, if it prints in color or just black and white, what type of paper it uses and how much the ink costs.

Canon Pixma sells for $250.00, but that price does not include the battery or Bluetooth adapter. The HP Deskjet and Pemtax PocketJet are $350.00 and the Brother MW-140BT is $400.00. The car chargers are not included in any of these, and the Brother does not have a car charger at this time.

The Canon prints about 450 pages per charge in both color and black and white on letter size paper. The HP also does both on letter size photos or text and their charge is good for 350 pages. Neither the Pemtax nor Brother do color and their charge lasts for 100 pages, but the latter prints only 3×4-inch pages and they both require thermal paper.

The first two afore-mentioned printers will fit in your carry-on luggage, weighing 4 and 4.5 pounds respectively, while the PocketJet fits in your laptop bag and weighs 1.1 pounds and the MW-140BT will also fit in your bag, but weighs just 11 ounces.

The right portable laptop printer is not only a matter of personal preference, but also the type of traveling you do, the type of printing you need done as well as the size of the page you need. The cost of ink and paper, as well as the availability of these items in other places, could also be a factor, so be sure to do your homework before you buy.

Whatever it is that your company needs to have printed or published, Cross Media Publishing is a state-of-the art comprehensive solution package which answers all your requirements and has a company-wide application.

Starting with a neutral data bank Cross Media Publishing is a simple and effective way to bring across the very essence of your company or your product to a clearly-defined target audience. The aim of Cross Media Publishing is to establish a consistent and stringent communication between your company and your customers, whatever the chosen channel of communication or medium. One great advantage is that unnecessary costs can be cut, and this irrespective of the size of your firm.

Product Information Management (PIM) means supplying high quality and up-to-date information on products for use in different media and for different company locations. The information in the form of product data, images, descriptions, texts and other sources is stored and administered in a modular systems architecture and can be used on WWW and intranet using a standardized technology. One of the most important aspects of PIM is that the individual product data is stored in a inter-exchangable form. If PIM is not used, there is a danger that the product information is not accessible throughout the company, and can only be used once.

A good Cross Media Publishing system guarantees the highest possible benefits for your company:

• Optimal integration into the existing systems environment
• Modular solution
• Utilisation of existing standards such as Java et. al.
• Compatible with prevalent software and hardware platforms
• Modern software architecture
• Data can be easily maintained because the content, structure and layout are separated
• Final publishing in print and online media can be effected with a high level of automation
• Customer communication can be optimised
• Cross Media Publishing can be implemented fast and with little effort