Print, Scan and Copy while in your Car
Even in this digital age it is still essential to be able to produce or save hard copies of documents. We offer both a printer and a scanner with our vehicle computer systems so that you can print and scan documents away from home or the office, wherever your car is.
Mobile Printing
We can supply our car computer systems with a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 460 series printer. This high quality mobile printer is specially designed for life on the road. Featuring print speeds of up to 17 pages per minute for black and 16 ppm for colour, and able to print to a wide range of media (inkjet paper, plain paper, photo paper, cards, envelopes, labels and transparencies) this printer has features that rival many standard home or office printers.
As standard the printer connects to the vehicle computer via USB, and we install a USB cable and power lead for the printer in a convenient position in your car (often in the boot*). However, the printer can also be ordered with Bluetooth technology and a rechargeable battery so that it can be placed anywhere in the car. The printer would then only need to be connected to the power lead when its battery needed to be recharged. Up to 450 pages can be printed per charge, so the printer would not need to be charged very often in most circumstances.
Other printer features include:
- Borderless photo printing
- 50 sheet input paper tray and fold-out output door
- Anti-vibration design for reliable mobile printing
- Cancel button
- Up to 1200 by 1200 dpi black print quality
- Easily manually print two-sided documents
- HP PhotoREt III technology with optional photo cartridge
- Lock connector available to secure the printer
This colour scanner (at the very top of the picture above) is one of the smallest scanners on the market, mainly due to the fact that it is a pass-through scanner, so the paper is fed in on one side of the scanner and emerges on the other.
Even if we install the scanner some distance away from the computer screen, it is still very easy to operate because it features 2 hot-key buttons that allow you to initiate scanning straight from the scanner. This means that you can scan documents from the scanner without having to interact with the computer at all.
One hot-key button scans the document to an easy to use image management program called Presto! Page Manager. This program stores and manages all your scanned images and from here they can either be printed, saved, or sent to the included OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, the award winning ABBYY FineReader.
ABBYY FineReader automatically converts any text in the image to editable text, and includes options to import the scanned document into Microsoft Word or Excel**, preserving the formatting of the original document where possible, and allowing you to work on the document from within these programs.
The second hot-key button on the scanner is configurable, and can be set to either scan straight to the printer, or to an email, or to the included OCR program. Again, this allows you to scan documents directly from the scanner without having to use the computer.
Sending Faxes
Although sending a traditional fax is difficult without access to a landline, various online services are available that allow you to send faxes via email. The process is simple - send the document or image that you want to be faxed to a special email address, and the online service will automatically fax this to a fax number of your choice. You are also allocated a dedicated fax number that people can use to send faxes to you. When they use this number their fax is emailed to you. Please contact us for more information about sending faxes via the internet.
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*We recommend the boot as being the best place for the printer USB and power cable, but, as with all the computer system's components, you can choose exactly where it goes.
**Word and Excel are included in all the versions of Microsoft Office that we provide.
