How to choose a printer cabinet?

For many users, the workplace is not limited to a laptop surface. Today, a computer accompanies a large number of things that require compact placement within a small space. Keyboard, mouse, headphones, printer, gamepads and various storage media need a certain place. Of course, of the listed items, the printer is large. The furniture industry produces curbstones focused specifically on him.... But the rest of the small work accessories find their place in it. Such furniture can turn chaos into a well-organized workspace.

Printer cabinets for offices and homes are infinitely diverse, they are open and closed... They are distinguished by constructions, material, location, size, additional purpose. The design features of the curbstone depend on what will be placed in them in addition to the printer: documentation, the rest of office equipment, accompanying items for printing equipment (paper, ink refilling kits).

The appearance of the cabinet also depends on the location of the cabinet. For example, a tabletop stand is compact and almost invisible. Some of their types are endowed with convenient storage places in the form of drawers and shelves. Sometimes tabletop structures rise up to three tiers above the tabletop.

Floor stand it is often a separate module of an office or home headset, it is combined with a table, cabinets, shelves.

A convenient option is considered a model of a pedestal that is built into a computer table, it is literally an extension of it. In this case, the owner of the furniture during the working process has everything at hand, he does not need to move around the room to make a printout.

There are other ways to bring the cabinet closer to the workplace - disguise it in the table. Such furniture is produced on wheels (roll-out), in order to use it, it is enough to roll out the section with the printer from under the table.

Furniture designers have tried to make a great variety in the design features of cabinets for printing equipment. The main goal of modeling is ease of use, so many projects are associated with combining a printer section with a table. For example, roll-out the curbstone leaves the table, but does not leave it completely, as in the above considered option.

Freestanding pedestals are also varied in their performance. The printer is located on them both in the public domain and in a version hidden from view. It can be a roll-out drawer or a shelf.

For small apartments, the industry offers this type of furniture, such as transformers... When folded, they represent a small, free-standing cabinet, but when it comes time to work, the model begins to transform, revealing hidden office equipment.

The simplest options include cabinets with a printer installed on the top plane of the furniture.... This arrangement of equipment is distinguished by the possibility of quick access to it and a convenient height. The disadvantage of the permanent presence of the printing device in sight is the accumulation of dust, which has to be removed periodically.

Bottom printer cabinets extremely inconvenient, to print, you have to bend down to the floor.

There are options when access to office equipment is carried out not only through open doors, but also lifting the top cover of the curbstone.

Sometimes furniture designers give free rein to their imagination, and she creates amazing things. We bring some of them to your attention.

• Curbstone-matryoshka, assembled from various modules, takes up little space in the room. During work, you can use the necessary stand for office equipment by simply pushing it out of the general structure.

• The curbstone is original design, providing quick and easy access to any type of equipment located on it. A comfortable location is provided by a vertical pipe on which the shelves are attached.

Furniture intended for installing a printer can be equipped with additional storage places, and depending on their content, the cabinet acquires its intended purpose:

• for printers, copiers and other office equipment;
• with shelves for printing supplies;
• multilayer structures for documents;
• universal or multifunctional, designed to store all sorts of things.

You can find cabinets made from homogeneous material, or combinedcombining metal and plastic, wood and glass. Often facade, frame and edge elements are made from products of different structure. In general, the creation of the curbstone can be involved various types of materials.

Chipboards are the most common material in the furniture industry.... Thanks to low-cost manufacturing, stores are filled with a lot of budget furniture. Chipboard is used for facades, frames and internal filling in the form of boxes and shelves. The material itself is produced by pressing coarse shavings. The adhesive base used to make the boards can emit toxic fumes when the environment is heated.

In the production of MDF boards, smaller chips are involved. The connecting base of this material is not hazardous. Blanks for the subsequent manufacture of furniture are covered with veneer, imitating different types of wood, their pattern and color can repeat even the most exotic species. In addition, the slabs lend themselves to beautiful processing and embossing, from which elegant furniture with embossed ornaments is obtained. The cost of MDF is an order of magnitude higher than products from particle boards, but they also look better.

Natural wood is beautiful, solid, presentable, it is an expensive, warm and environmentally friendly material, but due to the high cost, not available to everyone. Styles such as classical, all types of country, historical and ethnic trends need wood. Before becoming a piece of furniture, the material is carefully treated with antifungal impregnations, and the paint and varnish coatings make it waterproof and protect it from destruction.

Metal cabinets acquire for modern urban environments. They complement interiors in loft style, hi-tech, minimalism, techno. You can order forged products or buy ready-made models with beautiful glossy facades. Metal is organically combined with modern technology. Before making furniture, the material is treated with anti-corrosion compounds and other protective coatings. Metal belongs to strong, durable, but heavy materials, therefore, structures made of it are often installed on rollers.

Plastic cabinets are the most inexpensive of all those described. They cannot boast of strength and durability. The stability of such products often suffers.Plastic furniture is more suitable for summer cottages or as a temporary option until you purchase a more solid product.

Having familiarized yourself with a large number of types of pedestals, you can understand how diverse they are in size and shape. Any standards in this case are conditional. At the same time, models with the following parameters can be attributed to the most popular product:

• height - 60 -110 cm;
• width - 40-70 cm;
• depth - 40-55 cm.

In most cases, pedestals are produced square or rectangular forms. But sometimes designers embody their most unexpected ideas in this piece of furniture:

• the curbstone has smooth body lines;
• corner structure for office equipment;
• corner semicircular pedestal;
• a combined product with shelves of different formats.

Printer cabinet are chosen in addition to the existing computer furniture or together with a headset. If a room has been inhabited for a long time and only needs a cabinet, even before buying it, it is necessary to determine a place for it and carefully measure it.

Next, they think about the intended purpose, it is important know in advance what will be located on the cabinet besides the printer, its design features will depend on it. It will not be superfluous to mention and about the coincidence of the styles of the new piece of furniture with the prevailing environment. When buying, you should check the quality, certificate and warranty.

For information on how to make a do-it-yourself printer cabinet, see the next video.