How Does Laser Printing Compare to Inkjet Printing?
Laser Printers A laser printer prints an image by projecting it with a laser onto a rotating cylinder, which uses electrostatic to pick up toner, which is pressed directly onto paper, with heat helping to make the bond. Due to the rolling process involved in laser printing, the printer cannot stop as it is printing a given page to wait for more data to finish the page. Therefore, data for the entire image must be transferred to printer’s memory before a page can be printed. The result are pages that print uniformly at a high speed. Inkjet Printers There are three main types of inket printer technology: continuous inkjets, thermal inkjets and piezoelectric inkjets. While the process involved in each type of inket technology varies, they all have to do with propelling droplets of liquid ink from a tank or cartridge onto paper. Inkjet printers have separate cartridges for black and colored ink, and often use several different color cartridges. During printing, inkjets often stutter, and m
