Laser Printers

A laser printer produce a high quality document weather it is pictures are just your regular text document and then it presses it on the paper. Laser printers are receiving there printing jobs one page at a time instead of one line at a time like the bubble and laser jet printers. This printer can yield more prints then the other printers it can print around 3,000 - 3,600 pages. There is a process that the laser printer must go through to prepare itself for printing. It is a six step process which is: Cleaning, Charging, Writing, Developing, Transferring, and Fusing.

The EP Print Process:

1.) Cleaning- It cleans the drum by scraping any excess toner off of it. This cleaning process keeps the drum clean for another use. This step is very important because if it doesn't clean the image from the previous document will appear on your current document.

2.) Charging- This process prepares the drum for the image and the text. This step send high voltage charge to the corona wires.

3.) Writing- In this step it writes the image to the drum. The image is not permanently attached to the drum at this point.

4.) Developing- It mixes the developer and toner together to prepare it for printing. It transfers the image to the drum.

5.) Transferring- The corna wire is charged and the image is taking off of the drum and transferred to the paper.

6.) Fusing- It presses and heats the image on to the paper to give you your finished product.