Printer Memory

Many printer users overlook the fact that most printers on the market today accept a memory upgrade. Adding memory to your printer increases both the speed and quality of your print jobs.

Printers handle print requests in a buffer. Jobs are stored in the buffer, and then processed by the printer. Without sufficient memory, the portion of the print job is loaded into the buffer and printed, and then the next section is loaded and printed, until the end of the print job is reached. By increasing the memory, the buffer is increased, allowing for more of the print job to be stored, and subsequently processed at a faster rate.

In business today, the size and type of files that are printed by stand-alone and networked printers are often filled with images, word documents; excel files, and PowerPoint presentations. Often, the quality and resolution of these print jobs are affected by an inadequate amount of printer memory. If the printer does not have the memory available to print in the resolution requested, the resolution automatically drops down to a lower resolution in order to process the request.

To find out more about Kingston’s memory upgrades for printers, plotters, and scanners, please contact our sales Representative today.