What Is a Mobile Printer?

Portable printers refer to printers that are small and easy to carry, and are mainly designed to meet the printing needs of users on the move. Widely used in multiple office areas such as traffic police law enforcement.

Portable printer

Portable printers are small and easy to carry

Wired communication for portable printers

RS232 wired communication technology with a long history. Portable ticket printers and label printers are more commonly used, but generally not used to receive print data, but used for debugging

Ethernet communication, high transmission speed, convenient access, used for printer communication interface.

USB Portable printer USB

Office portable printers and photo printers generally use USB as a wired data communication interface

Wireless communication for portable printers

Infrared (IrDA), Bluetooth (BLUETOOTH), WIFI (802.11b / g), RF2.4G wireless, RF433MHz wireless

Infrared technology was used in many portable printers before 2007, but as laptop computers and mobile phones gradually phase out infrared technology, fewer and fewer printers use infrared technology.

The wireless data communication technology of the Bluetooth-type mainstream portable printer has the advantages of low power consumption and non-directionality, the disadvantage is that the transmission distance is limited, and the initial setup and pairing are more complicated

WIFI is a technology used by some portable ticket printers and label printers. The advantage is that the transmission distance is long and non-directional. The disadvantage is that the printer consumes high power consumption.

RF2.4G wireless is a free band for civilian use. As the cost of technology matures, it will be used in the wireless communication of printers after it is widely used in the field of computer peripherals. Low power consumption, long transmission distance, the maximum effective distance is about 30 meters.

The RF433MHz wireless frequency band has higher penetration than the above higher frequency wireless frequency bands, with a maximum effective distance of about 100 meters. It is mostly used to form a small-scale private wireless network. The printer can receive mobile office within the network range The device requested to perform printing.