A travel printer is a compact portable printer which is most suited to be carried along while you are traveling and which can help you in printing important documents while traveling. These printers can run on batteries and they come in both wired and wireless modes. The wired printers do have a car battery adapter which allows you to print documents even when you are stuck in a traffic jam. The printers charged with batteries can be wireless with Bluetooth technology so that you need not search for an electrical point before using the printer.

Travel printers come in different varieties. As these are very small printers they are generally not multifunctional and there are different printers for different purposes. There are separate printers that are suited for printing text, photos and labels. For printing documents for official purposes, inkjet travel printers are used, while if you are on a pleasure trip and want to print photos while on the go, you should carry one which has the facility to print photos in different sizes directly from the camera.

Travel printers have brought about a revolution in instant printing in the business marketing area because if you carry a printer along with you, it will be easy for you to print brochures, leaflets, quotations etc. instantly and handover to the clients immediately for their reference. Thus, travel printers are a much sought after device for sales executives as well as for holiday travelers. Some of the good travel printers which are well reputed for their superior quality are Epson Picturemate, HP Photosmart, Canon Pixma and Kodak’s Easyshare.

While buying a travel printer, you must also check for the size of the paper that it accepts and see whether it is capable of printing standard sized documents or not. You should also carefully check for accessories such as batteries, car chargers and power adapters which are very important to run your printer smoothly.