Last week, the company's printer failed, and the administrative classmates came to us for help and asked if there was a temporary top of the printer. Geek's Choice does have a previously reviewed printer product, and while the home inkjet printer is certainly not as effective as a commercial laser printer, it's better than nothing.
Embarrassingly, when I turned over the printer and found that the ink cartridge was empty, I remembered that the last time I used it may have been two or three years ago, the ink should have dried up, and maybe even because it was too long without blocking the ink, and finally helplessly put it back in the box. This may be an embarrassing scene faced by many home printers, not necessarily used frequently, but when it is needed, it is basically urgent, and it is quite uncomfortable to catch the strike at this time.
According to my understanding of friends around me, many people have a demand for home printers, especially families with children, homework, exercises, manual lesson materials, etc., may need to use printers. Often go to the print shop, the trouble is indeed troublesome, their own purchase of a printer occupies a small area, not to mention, consumables are also a large cost, and Geek Choice recently received a job to help the meow machine home learning printer F1 (hereinafter referred to as the meow machine F1), it may be another solution.
The small appearance does not occupy a large area
As a product aimed at the printer market, the advantage of the Meow Machine F1 in terms of "body" is very obvious, and the most headache problem for many home printers is "where to put it?" It takes up a large piece of space on the computer desk, and it is very troublesome to move around every time it is used in the cabinet. The overall size of the meow machine F1 is 335*235*122mm, covering only about 2/3 of the area of a regular A4 paper, and most traditional household machines are twice as large as the size of the meow machine F1.
Meow machine F1 even the size of the outer packaging is very restrained, in addition to the host outside the packaging of the accessories including power cord, data cable and instructions, consumables have been installed in the host, the data line also has a magnetic ring, the details of the material is still quite exquisite. Mention of consumables have to say that the meow meow machine F1 working principle, it uses thermal technology printing, which also determines that the printer itself does not need to use ink cartridges, consumables from the traditional printer cartridge + paper, into only thermal paper, and thermal paper is rolled on the reel, placed inside the fuselage will not occupy additional space.
The Meow Meow F1 features a white fuselage design, which is no different from a conventional home printer, and it will not look obtrusive no matter where it is placed. There is a power button and two indicator lights in the lower left corner of the top of the fuselage, the right position is the Brand logo in English, and the position behind the fuselage is equipped with a power cord interface and a USB Type-B data transmission interface, USB Type-B is also a very common interface on traditional printers, and there is no problem with versatility.
There is a button on the left and right sides of the fuselage on the upper part, which can be opened by pulling backwards, and the thermal paper required for printing is fixed inside. Because there is no ink cartridge, even if it is used for a long time, there will be no dust in the cabin, and it can be kept fresh and clean for a long time. Dust itself does not affect daily use, but for some cleanliness users, it is certainly a pleasure to be able to keep it clean every time you open the cabin.
Print a sheet of A4 paper in 3 seconds, and the 300DPI effect is clear enough
Although the meow machine F1 can not use the printer three words to define it, but the printing is indeed its final output part, but also a very important part of the entire experience, the quality of the print is directly related to the user's evaluation of it. As I said just now, the meow machine F1 uses thermal technology printing, which is actually very common in our daily life, such as POS machine bills, supermarket receipts, and restaurant bills are all used in thermal technology.
Thermal technology printing and traditional inkjet printers are still very obvious, the first is fast, meow meow machine F1 print a sheet of A4 paper content as fast as 3 seconds, and the amount of printed content on the speed is not much impact. If you have no concept of this time, you can recall the relevant scenes in the daily life just mentioned, such as after the supermarket shopping has completed the checkout, the shopping receipt can be described as a second out.
This is due to the advantages of the characteristics of thermal technology itself, if it is an ordinary home printer, the printing of an A4 paper is possible according to the amount of printed content, 5 seconds or even 30 seconds are possible, the laser printer speed will be much faster, but there is dust is not healthy and the price will be much more expensive.
In addition, in terms of analytical power, thermal technology printing also shows its advantages, such as the content of the document we print, regardless of the font size, the edge of the text is not glitchy. The paper selection material uses high-quality pulp paper, does not contain BPA, is more healthy and environmentally friendly, and compared with traditional heat-sensitive paper, its texture is more inclined to traditional paper, and it will not affect the writing experience, which is also crucial for the content of the exercise type.
As for the cost of consumables, Meow Meow F1 uses customized thermal paper, the price is 29 yuan per roll, the official data given is that each roll can print nearly 100 sheets, we take the conventional 500 sheets of A4 printing paper as a comparison, its price is about 85 yuan, 100 pieces is about 17 yuan. Although the paper consumables of the meow machine will be relatively expensive, it does not require additional ink, and it is also more space-saving than traditional paper storage, which are two advantages that cannot be ignored.
The printing method is compatible and the learning function is a killer
In the previous section, we already understood the experience of the Meow Meow F1 on hardware, and as a "learning machine", the software-related experience is the most unique part of it. Let's take a look at its ease of use, if the user uses the traditional way to print, it only needs to use the data cable to connect the printer to the computer, and then add the printer; but the most essential part of it is still used with the app.
At the beginning, the user needs to bind the device, the whole process is still more intuitive, after opening the app will automatically scan the nearby boot device, the user chooses to connect and bind, and then you can enter the control page. It should be noted that because the app contains Q&A content, the default is student mode, and if you need to parse the content, you need to authenticate.
The Meow Machine app puts the two most frequently used functions, document printing and scanning printing, in the most prominent position. Document printing can directly select the document files in the device, such as PDF, word, PPT, excel and txt and other formats are compatible; users can also choose WeChat, QQ or DingTalk documents, open the required documents to choose to use other ways / meow machine to open can be printed, which is quite intimate for iOS users.
As a product of Homework Gang, the Meow Machine app is naturally indispensable to learning-related content, which is also its unique advantage. For example, in the scanning and printing function, users can scan regular documents and documents, and can also shoot test papers, shoot wrong questions or shoot books, which is quite practical for students to shoot test papers and wrong questions, and the app can erase the part of the answer in the test paper, and generate an unfilled test paper one-click printing. Users can also choose the wrong question to print, that is, the wrong question is included in the wrong question book in the app, which is convenient for subsequent strengthening exercises, and can also arbitrarily select the wrong questions included to form a test paper for targeted practice.
The question bank of the meow machine is very rich, including Chinese, mathematical exercises, test papers, oral arithmetic exercises, word idioms, language/English writing, famous sayings and beautiful sentences, etc., for preschool children can also be colored through the app to make picture books. My little friend is now two and a half years old, and it is simply not too happy to see the function of the coloring picture book.
In addition to the above mentioned, the Meow Machine app also provides a rich variety of material libraries, in which you can find notes, learning, answer sheets, checklist punch cards, calligraphy paper, finance, music, etc., because there are really too many, it is difficult to write clearly at one time. These materials can come in handy whether it is in work, study or daily life, I roughly turned it over, it can be said that only the unexpected can not be done.
See here you will find that it is difficult to summarize what the meow machine F1 can do in one sentence, because in addition to the conventional printing, scanning, and exercises, the cooperation between the meow machine and the app can provide users with more different functions and gameplay. In the future, with the continuous upgrading of the app and the increase of content, the ability of the meow machine F1 will continue to expand, which is also a very attractive point.