How Do Digital Copiers Work?
Digital copiers have largely replaced analog photocopy machines as standard office equipment throughout the world. The advanced technology is better for the environment than the old machines, and may also be easier to maintain and repair. By combining the functions of a document scanner and a laser printer, the digital copier revolutionized the field of photocopying. Traditional, or analog, copiers work by combining a positively charged drum and negatively charged substance called toner to recreate the image of the original document on a new piece of paper. To create additional copies, analog machines would have to recopy the original each time. Digital copiers work like a computer document scanner; they stores the data as a file that can then be reprinted repeatedly, altered, or saved. The printing mechanism of digital copiers acts like a modern laser printer. The printer quickly memorizes the entire document scanned through a Raster Image Processor (RIP) and creates the page in the r
