Laser Printer,
CHILLAPPLE Groups.
Laser Printer, an electrophotographic printer that is based on the technology used by photocopiers. A focused laser beam and a rotating mirror are used to draw an image of the desired page on a photosensitive drum.
This image is converted on the drum into an electrostatic charge, which attracts and holds toner. A piece of electrostatically charged paper is rolled against the drum, which pulls the toner away from the drum and onto the paper. Heat is then applied to fuse the toner to the paper.
Finally, the electrical charge is removed from the drum and the excess toner is collected. By omitting this final step and repeating only the toner-application and paper-handling steps, the printer can make multiple copies.
The only serious drawback of a laser printer is that it offers less paper-handling flexibility than do dot-matrix printers. Both multipart forms and wide-carriage printing, for example, are better handled by dot-matrix or daisy-wheel printers.
