Thermal printing
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Thermal printing is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by passing paper with a thermochromic coating, commonly known as thermal paper, over a print head consisting of tiny elect
A thermal printer
Bills and receipts are typically printed on thermal paper.
A thermal print head
Thermal print head at high magnification
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