Differences Between Commercial and SOHO Printers

SOHO Printers (Small, Office Home)
SOHO printer refers to the users with printers such as dot matrix printers, laser printers, and inkjet printers, multi-function printers and commonly used in homes and small businesses. These desktop sizes printers are usually small enough to fit in a regular room. SME may also use larger floor-model printers such as a copier type or a wide format type. In short, these are equipment used to print documents on paper, card stock, transparencies or other materials.

Commercial Printers
Commercial printers refer to businesses or entities that are able to produce a wide variety of printed materials that is meant for commercial usages such as direct marketing leaflets for large distribution, books, magazines, catalogs and transactional statements, carton packaging, etc. In short, it will be in a larger scale and by professionals. Commercial printers usually require very specific file preparation or prepress tasks with various printing machineries and finishing equipments. The printing are usually via reprographics, offset lithography or other commercial printing processes. 


Knowing when to print at home and at a print shop
As a student, home-small business users and even corporate users in making the right decision about getting your stuffs printed in the utmost desire way could be tough when you have little knowledge or just not able to get the right tools in getting it done. You go online and buy your logo, tools, machinery and the ideal printer to produce it and yet it always seem just not "pro" enough. What are the "best commercial printers" in the market? And yet, it doesn't produce exactly as you have hope for. Or simply, you just need to produce in large quantity or finishing that you required are not available easily, then you know it is time to go to the print shop. Commercial printers are just like a print shop but with advanced features. 

Commercial printers usually covers from the abstraction from digital production, going to a pre-press to check and layout, sampling if needed, to the actual printing production then apply the finishing required to embellish and finally completing the final product.