Laser printing
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Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics by repeatedly passing a laser beam back and forth over a negatively charged cylinder called a "d
HP LaserJet 4200 series printer, installed atop additional 500-sheet paper tray
Gary Starkweather (seen here in 2009) invented the laser printer.
Laser unit from a Dell P1500. The white hexagon is the rotating scanner mirror.
Magnification of color laser printer output, showing individual toner particles comprising 4 dots of an image with a bluish background
Inkjet printing
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Inkjet printing is a type of computer printing that recreates a digital image by propelling very fine droplets of ink onto various substrates such as paper, plastic, wood and metal.
Laser printing
…technologies in that each page is always rendered in a single continuous process without any pausing in the middle, while other technologies like inkjet can pause every few lines. To avoid a buffer underrun (where the laser reaches a point on the page before it has the dots to draw there), a laser printer…
A typical inkjet printer
A Canon inkjet with CMYK cartridges
Piezoelectric printhead of an Epson C20 printer
Howtek style inkjet nozzle (tubular piezo not shown)