Laser and LED Printers
Laser and LED printers combine the low noise of an inkjet printer with the waterproof printing of a dot-matrix printer and have a very low cost per page.
Laser/LED printers are similar in many ways to photocopiers:
Both use an electrostatically charged drum to receive the image to be transferred to paper.
Both use a fine-grained powdered toner that is heated to adhere to the paper.
Both must feed the paper through elaborate paper paths for printing.
However, significant differences exist between the photocopier and its computer-savvy sibling:
Laser/LED printers produce images digitally, turning individual dots on and off; most copiers, however, are still analog devices.
Laser/LED printers work under the control of a computer; ...
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