To the question: "Office equipment - what is it?" You can answer that a set of electronic and mechanical devices that are designed to increase the efficiency of modern institutions.
Even 50 years ago, a clerical worker hadhis arsenal only a pack of sheets and a typewriter (and if you're lucky, then also a photocopier). Today, the level of development of modern technologies greatly simplifies life for clerks, secretaries, journalists, medical workers, and representatives of many other professions whose work is in one way or another connected with document management.
Office equipment: classification
Modern means of office equipment are divided depending on the area of destination on:
1. Communication.
These include telephone, mobile, facsimile, and e-mail.
По расположению телефоны делятся на носимые и stationary, and by communication systems - to radio and wire telephones. 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-talkies, etc.), which allows the subscriber to perform communication functions without being tied to a specific place.
Facsimile communications (fax, PC with fax modem) allow you to send images over a telephone channel (radio or wired).
Электронная почта как коммуникационная оргтехника - It is a system for exchanging textual, 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 devices such aspersonal 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. Printing.
Typewriters today have virtually sunk intosummer and are currently used, probably, only by amateurs (for example, by writers who are accustomed to working in the old fashioned way). Now they successfully and effectively replaced the combination of a computer and printer.
The printer is a peripheralA computer device that is used to display the necessary information on paper or other (plastic, cloth) media. Depending on the printing method used, this equipment is divided into three classes: inkjet, matrix, and laser printers.
4. Multiplying.
Copy office equipment - this copiersmachines, scanners, risographs, which greatly simplify the process of reproduction of documents. In general, the principle of operation of such devices is reduced to reading the original information from a sheet (text, picture, photo), entering it into a computer (unlike scanners, Xeroxes work without this stage), recognition and output in a given number of copies.
A risograph is used to create brochures,booklets, promotional materials in large quantities, the reproduction of which is laborious for copying machines and economically unprofitable for professional printing houses.
5. Multifunctional.
Multifunctional office equipment - this device“All in one”, which can significantly save office space, since one such device at the same time can be either a telephone-fax, or fax-copier-scanner, or 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 successful workenterprises are his promotional activities. Someone is engaged in promoting their products and services through the Network, someone publishes information about themselves in the periodical press, and someone participates in various seminars and exhibitions. For the latter case, the prerequisite is the visibility, brilliance and dynamism of the presented materials. Presentation office equipment is such technical means as a multimedia projector and overhead (projection apparatus), without which today it is difficult to present a full-fledged report or advertising presentation.
