To the question: "Office equipment - what is it?" You can answer what it is a complex of electronic and mechanical devices that are designed to increase the efficiency of modern institutions.
Even 50 years ago, a clerical worker had in his arsenal only a stack of sheets and a typewriter (and if you were lucky, then also a photocopier). Today, the level of development of modern technologies greatly simplifies the life of clerks, and secretaries, and journalists, and medical workers, and representatives of many other professions, whose work is somehow connected with document management.
Office equipment for the office : classification
Modern office equipment is divided into:
1. Communication.
This includes telephone, mobile, facsimile communications, and email.
By location, the phones are divided into wearable and landline, and by communication systems - into radio and landline phones. The last category of office equipment is the main means of communication in any modern office.
Mobile communication is any radio communication (cellular, paging, trunk, walkie-talkie, etc.), which allows the subscriber to perform communicative functions without reference to a specific place.
Facsimile communications (fax, PC with fax modem) allow you to transfer images over a telephone channel (radio or wired).
E-mail as a communication office equipment is a system for exchanging text, photo or graphic information with an interlocutor, which is carried out through a PC or cell phone with an Internet connection.
2. Electronic.
This class includes such devices as a personal computer, laptop, netbook, etc. As a rule, the work of some other types of office equipment (in particular, a scanner, printer) is coordinated through them.
3. Print.
Typewriters today have almost sunk into oblivion and are currently used, probably, only by amateurs (for example, writers who are used to working the old fashioned way). Now they are successfully and effectively replaced by a combination of a computer and a printer.
A printer is a peripheral computer device that is used to output the necessary information to paper or other (plastic, fabric) media. Depending on the printing method used, this equipment is divided into three classes: inkjet, dot-matrix and laser printers.
4. Multiplying.
Office equipment is copy machines, scanners, risographs, which greatly simplify the process of document reproduction. In general, the principle of operation of such devices is reduced to reading the source information from a sheet (text, picture, photo), entering it into a computer (unlike scanners, photocopiers work without this step), recognizing and outputting in a given number of copies.
A risograph is used to create brochures, booklets, and promotional materials in large print runs, the reproduction of which seems laborious for photocopiers and economically disadvantageous for professional printing houses.
5. Multifunctional.
Multifunctional office equipment is an all-in-one device that can significantly save office space, since one such device can simultaneously be either a telephone-fax, or a fax-copier-scanner, or a copier-scanner-printer. In modern models of multifunction devices, as a rule, there are connectors for the most common formats of memory cards, which makes it possible to print images and other documents without the participation of a computer device.
6. Presentation.
One of the necessary conditions for the successful operation of an enterprise is its advertising. Someone is promoting their goods and services through the Network, someone publishes information about himself in the periodical press, and someone participates in various seminars and exhibitions. For the latter case, the necessary condition is the visibility, colorfulness and dynamism of the materials presented. Presentation office equipment is such technical means as a multimedia projector and overhead (projection apparatus), without which it is difficult today to present a full-fledged report or an advertising presentation.