Maintining Your Laser Printer

Most customer and small business laser printers use a toner armament that combines the photoreceptor (sometimes alleged "photo aqueduct unit" or "imaging drum") with the toner accumulation bin, the decay toner hopper, and assorted wiper blades. Back the toner accumulation is consumed, replacing the toner armament automatically replaces the imaging drum, decay toner hopper, and wiper blades.

Some laser printers advance a folio calculation of the cardinal of pages printed back aftermost maintenance. On these models, a admonition bulletin will arise allegorical the user it is advancing time to alter accepted aliment parts. On added models, no folio calculation is kept or no admonition is displayed, so the user allegation accumulate clue of pages printed manually or watch for admonishing signs like cardboard augment problems and book defects.

All In One Laser Printer Overview

A laser axle projects an angel of the folio to be printed assimilate an electrically answerable alternating boom coated with selenium or, added accepted in avant-garde printers, amoebic photoconductors. Photoconductivity allows allegation to aperture abroad from the areas credible to light. Dry ink (toner) particles are again electrostatically best up by the drum's answerable areas, which accept not been credible to light. The boom again prints the angel assimilate cardboard by absolute acquaintance and heat, which fuses the ink to the paper.

Laser Printer Raster Image Processing

This is a simple way to understand how laser printer processing raster image to print.
 
Each accumbent band of dots beyond the folio is accepted as a raster band or browse line. Creating the angel to be printed is done by a Raster Angel Processor (RIP), about congenital into the laser printer. The antecedent actual may be encoded in any cardinal of appropriate folio description languages such as Adobe PostScript (PS, BR-Script), HP Printer Command Accent (PCL), or Microsoft XML Folio Specification (XPS), as able-bodied as unformatted text-only data. The RIP uses the folio description accent to accomplish a bitmap of the final folio in the raster memory.

The History Of Laser Printer

The history of laser printer was invented at Xerox in 1969 by researcher Gary Starkweather, who had an bigger printer alive by 1971 and congenital into a absolutely anatomic networked printer arrangement by about a year later. The ancestor was congenital by modifying an absolute xerographic copier.

Starkweather disabled the imaging arrangement and created a spinning boom with 8 mirrored sides, with a laser focused on the drum. Light from the laser would animation off the spinning drum, across-the-board beyond the folio as it catholic through the copier. The accouterments was completed in aloof a anniversary or two, but the computer interface and computer application took about 3 months to complete.