Recently last month, Samsung launched their new line of laser printers that feature NFC technology or well known as Near-Field Communication. It allows two supported devices to communicate and exchange data through touching one another, tapping, or getting them near with each other. This technology was once a very common feature in mobile devices particularly with smartphones. Now it has been applied to a non-mobile device such as a printer and surprisingly went into a hype.
Samsung's Xpress series includes three NFC supported printers which is the C410W, C460W and C460FW. The last model can print, scan, copy and fax, while the other two doesn't include fax functionality. More or less, these new range offers 18ppm (pages-per-minute) print speed in both mono and colour printing. With the NFC feature, these printers may be used to print files, documents and even web contents by simply letting your device touch the printer. Connecting you phone to the printer is easy, however you won't be able to transfer the data unless you download a mobile print application and WiFi Direct, or any equivalent app.
The latest news related to NFC implementation came from Brother International with the announcement of their new color inkjet printer which is the Brother MFC-J870DW. Although they're not the first manufacturer to ever released a non-mobile device that has a built-in NFC connectivity. They still got the credit for the first inkjet MFC SOHO printer that also supports near-field communication technology.
If you still remember this similar connectivity technology which is called the Infrared, it was also used in mobile devices a few years back if you may recall. However, it didn't create much of a buzz, then later Bluetooth was innovated. Well the thing with NFC is that there are few devices nowadays that are mostly equipped with near-field technology. Considering that a non-mobile device can now be utilized to work with NFC, this year will mark the birth of a new line of NFC-equipped printers.
Sooner or later, other brand manufacturers will come up with their own range of printers that supports NFC data transfer technology. The market for the best NFC-compatible app will more likely boost just like when wireless printing became popular, apps and software keep on popping everywhere.
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