Small A4 inkjet (to be run from an 12v inverter)
Discussion
Hi,
In my spare time I do motorsporty stuff, not actually driving but officialdom. This weekend we had an issue and luckily I had a print out of a significantly large set of forms for an incident. However, that was by good luck rather than good organisation.
Does anyone know of a cheap inkjet printer that is USB that would be able to work off a 12v inverter so that I could keep documents on my laptop and USB print them ?
There's that many forms / documents that are required it's practically impossible to attend an event with all of the printed out and ready to go.
Thanks
BS
In my spare time I do motorsporty stuff, not actually driving but officialdom. This weekend we had an issue and luckily I had a print out of a significantly large set of forms for an incident. However, that was by good luck rather than good organisation.
Does anyone know of a cheap inkjet printer that is USB that would be able to work off a 12v inverter so that I could keep documents on my laptop and USB print them ?
There's that many forms / documents that are required it's practically impossible to attend an event with all of the printed out and ready to go.
Thanks
BS
beko1987 said:
Wouldn't a 12v-240v transformer work better, than just an cheap 240v inkjet?
I cant imagine the load of a printer is particularly high and 240v ones would be cheaper to buy/if it breaks you can run to the nearest supermarket and buy another
That's a fair point actually. I'd be better with a 240v cheap printer. Would need to be USB as wouldn't have internet.I cant imagine the load of a printer is particularly high and 240v ones would be cheaper to buy/if it breaks you can run to the nearest supermarket and buy another
I already have a 12v > 240v inverter.
You could probably use a bog-standard inkjet with wifi, connected to a 240v inverter. Connect phone/laptop to printer's wifi, print.
(I'd normally say "get a laser, don't touch the inkjet!" but lasers can have a big current draw when heating up - my Brother takes 500w/1000w (I forget which) for about 30 seconds when it starts up. Not a huge amount, but perhaps enough to guide you to an inkjet.
(I'd normally say "get a laser, don't touch the inkjet!" but lasers can have a big current draw when heating up - my Brother takes 500w/1000w (I forget which) for about 30 seconds when it starts up. Not a huge amount, but perhaps enough to guide you to an inkjet.
biggiles said:
You could probably use a bog-standard inkjet with wifi, connected to a 240v inverter. Connect phone/laptop to printer's wifi, print.
(I'd normally say "get a laser, don't touch the inkjet!" but lasers can have a big current draw when heating up - my Brother takes 500w/1000w (I forget which) for about 30 seconds when it starts up. Not a huge amount, but perhaps enough to guide you to an inkjet.
I think avoid a laser in this scenario. 500w at 240v is about 2A, but when reduced down to 12v it's a shed load of amps (unless I've failed my basic physics ??)(I'd normally say "get a laser, don't touch the inkjet!" but lasers can have a big current draw when heating up - my Brother takes 500w/1000w (I forget which) for about 30 seconds when it starts up. Not a huge amount, but perhaps enough to guide you to an inkjet.
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