Small compact printer needed

Do you need to scan?
How many pages would you print in a month?

 

I bought an hp package. $250 laptop. $30 printer. cartridges were $15 every 6 weeks roughly. Lasted 6 years with only one cable bought.

Trucks get colder then 35 all the time in winter. Some of us actually went home on the weekends and usually during the week.

 

I bought the Epson WF-100 today. It's Wi-fi compatible. The FMCSA Auditor was using this printer last week during my safety audit, so I decided to give it a try.

It is very compact and easy to set up. I set it up while at home today and experimented with it. It's pretty nice.

The Epson Android printing app is a little buggy on my phone, however, it could just be me. I'll work on that later.

I connected it to my laptop after I installed their software. Connected it via a USB cable and accessed it through my cell phone hotspot. It worked flawlessly. It includes a built in battery and once fully charged manuf. claims it will print 100 pages before needing a recharge.

I don't print many pages on the road either. However, figured if a dot officer wanted to be a butthead, he could require me to print out my logs from my non-eld software I currently use. I figure I can always use it to print out rate_cons etc, when needed.

Staples (in store) price matched Amazon Prime's online price of $183. Staple's price was $299. That was quite a discount.

 

I use a thermal printer. Similar to what the cops have in their cars. It's smaller than a carton of smokes.

 

This printer is so compact it won't even be remotely cumbersome to carry it when you go home.

 

I leave mine in my computer bag. So it goes everywhere my laptop does

 

I always had spare ink cartridges. From Wal-Mart.

They seemed to hold up good in the cold. It's when they're opened and installed did I have problems. when it got really cold.