Resolution & Speed of Laser and Inkjet Printers by Christy Berger
You've decided to buy a laser or inkjet printer but do not know how much resolution typical laser or inkjet printers have and how much is really necessary for you. Here's some information that will help you find out before buying your inkjet or laser printer. ... The speed of a laser printer or inkjet printer is measured by the ppm (pages per minute); the number of pages a laser or inkjet printer can produce in one minute. ... And a higher-end color laser will have a resolution between 2400 by 1200 dpi to 2400 by 2400 dpi.

Printers - A Practical Buyers Guide by Iggy Quazi
Buying a printer can be a complicated business, there are more shapes, sizes and types of printers available to the home and small business user than ever before. Printers have also become specialised for their intended purpose. It is no longer a case of "a printer is a printer". ... Laser Printers Laser printers work in a similar way to photocopiers, except they use a laser instead of a bright light to scan with. ... However, laser printers have advanced a great deal recently and their prices have steadily dropped, as a result there are now compact laser printers, multi-function and...

Printer Review Comparisons by John Gibb
In today’s market, there are basically 4 types of popular printers. • Inkjet • Laser • Thermal Transfer(Dye Sublimation) • Dot Matrix (Yes, they’re still selling these!) The factors that separate them are simple. • Initial cost • Operation cost • Speed and Performance • Durability •... Inkjet’s and Thermal printers have much smaller cartridges and usually run out quicker than the toner in a laser. ... Laser printers are also usually rated on monthly volume. ... Duty cycle isn’t as high as a laser, but for home/office printing, most of them can keep up fine.

How Does Your Printer Work? by John Sollars
Impact printers, as the very name implies means that the printing mechanism touches the paper for creating an image. Impact printers were used in early 70s and 80s. In Dot Matrix printers a series of small pins is used to strike on a ribbon coated with ink to transfer the image on the paper. ... How Laser Printer works: Unlike the printers before, Laser printers use toner, static electricity and heat to create an image on the paper. ... Basic components of a laser printer are fuser, photoreceptor drum assembly, developer roller, laser scanning unit, toner hopper, corona wire and a...

Xerox - Its Journey with Ink by John Sollars
Chester Carlson inventor of xerography founded the Haloid Company on April 18, 1935. The company manufactured and sold photographic paper! It was based in Rochester New York. In the year 1942 Carlson received U.S. patent No. 2,297,691 on Oct. 6 for electrophotography, later called xerography,... Xerox pioneered work on the carbon-based organic toner during the 1950’s and today it boasts of developing a chemically grown toner – Emulsion Aggregation, in short Xerox has been and still is the market leader in copiers, toners and Inks!

How To Properly Recondition Your Xerox 13R546 Drum Cartridge In Less Than 60 Minutes by Joseph Mercado
The Xerox 13R546 laser drum cartridges are relatively easy to recondition. Similar in many ways to the 5318 style cartridges, which preceded them. It is a simple matter of disassembly, a thorough cleaning, inspection of the Drum and Cleaning Blade, and repair of the Connector. ... Step-by-Step “How-to-Recondition Your Xerox 13R546” Instructions: This drum cartridge is compatible with Xerox copier model numbers: •XC23 •XC23-A •XC23-AS •XC33-AS •XC33-D Specifications on the Xerox 13R546 Drum Cartridge •Model Number – 13R546 •Manufacturer – Xerox •Type – Brand New •Color – Black...

Free Printers - Are They For Real? by Kwan Lo
Nothing is free? Or is it? Free stuff is often used as a marketing technique these days, so getting a free printer is not that hard to comprehend. In fact, there are many ways to obtain a free printer. For examples, you can get one from a friend who has just bought a new printer. ... There are some companies offering new color laser printers for free. ... These discount ink / toner cartridges are built according to the specifications of OEM cartridges but sold at half price of OEM cartridges. ... In other words, they make profits from the sales of ink / toner supplies and not from the...

A Market Study of Colour Printers by John Sollars
The printer manufacturing market seems to be a booming one. Manufacturers are no doubt eyeing expansion and coming up with newer products to capture the burgeoning market. The manufacturers are interested in the colour -printer sector for purely reasons of expansion. ... To maximize its revenue, the company in a clever move, outfitted the toner with different toner cartridges. ... The investors are much optimistic, as these printers, using four times the toner cyan, magenta, yellow, and black of a monochrome printer, will produce pictures of a much higher quality.

Do It Yourself - 10 Different Hewlett Packard Printer Problems with 10 Different Printer Solutions by Joseph Mercado
How many of you know that when you printing documents and running those reams of paper through your printer, one of them is going to get tangled up. If your print sessions are valuable to you, then you should check this article out. Below are 10 HP LaserJet printer problems with 10 HP LaserJet... If the toner is low, simply removing the cartridge and shaking it to redistribute the toner more evenly can temporarily resolve the problem until you can replace the cartridge. ... Second, the toner cartridge may be defective and letting too much toner out at one time.

Guide to Buying a New printer by Andrew Gates
One of the more perplexing decisions when faced with choosing a new printer is which print technology is going to suit you best. At the moment there are two main printing systems: the laser technology, using toner cartridges and a transfer drum assembly; and ink jets using ink tank cartridges... Laser printers use powder toner that is electromagnetically attracted to the page by an image temporarily made on a transfer drum through a laser scanning process, and then fused to the page with a heat-setting system.