Letter-Sized Printers: General Information
If you are going to use FloristWare you will absolutely need a standard Letter-Size printer. This will be used to print reports, worksheets, reports, receipts, invoices, statements and more.
We strongly encourage you to avoid inkjets and go with a laser printer for several reasons. The first is that lasers are much faster. And, while more expensive to buy, they cost much less to run. Since you will be doing a lot of printing a laser will pay for itself very quickly. Another big problem with inkjets is that the ink runs if it gets wet - something that happens very often in flower shops! Laser printers avoid this problem entirely.
If you ever plan on using FloristWare on more than one machine you should go with a true network printer. This means that instead of connecting the printer to your computer you will connect it to your hub or switch and access it over your network.
Since you are going to be doing a lot of printing on your letter-sized printer you should get a good one. Generally speaking the less a printer costs to buy the more it will cost to run. Plan on spending a few hundred dollars to get something decent.
Some people ask about color laser printers. FloristWare can automatically print your logo in the top left corner of receipts, invoices, statements etc., and having a color printer would allow you to print your logo in color. This is the only place where FloristWare will allow you to take advantage of color printing - everything else will be grayscale. Since color printers are generally much more expensive to buy and operate than black & white printers you need to think hard about whether a color logo is worth the extra money. If however you plan on doing a lot of color printing from other applications a color laser may make sense.
