Jasmine Chu
rms & Amy Davies
A printer which prints using powdered ink, called toner. Toner is fused onto paper by heat and pressure. They work through electronically charging a piece of paper with the digital images selected for printing.
Uses
- In workplaces
- Printing high quality
- Home printer
Advantages
- High quality printouts- better than ink jet or dot matrix printers
- Fast printouts- faster than ink jet or dot matrix printers
- Prints very quietly- quieter than ink jet or dot matrix printers
- Cost per page is low- cheaper than ink jet or dot matrix printers
- Much more efficient than ink jet printers- capable of producing several thousand prints from one toner cartridge
Disadvantages
- Most expensive printer to buy especially colour lasers
- Toner is more expensive than ink jet cartridges
- Expensive to repair- lots of complex equipment inside
- Fairly bulky- larger than ink jet printers
- Can’t use continuous or multi-part stationary to create carbon copies like you can with a dot-matrix printer
- They are more suited to printing text rather than graphics
- They tend to produce images that have a shiny, artificial look
Alternatives
- Ink jet printer
- Dot matrix printer