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Re: OT: suggest a printer
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Laser printers can have color. And they're super speedy.
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They use 4 toner colors. We have some HP4600 color laser printers and they work well, but eat $100 cartridges like George Forman eats burgers.
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March 3rd, 2005, 08:56 PM
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I must admit I've never tried to figure out how laser printers work and that the last time I saw one in action was maybe 10-12 years ago. What's toner?
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Re: OT: suggest a printer
Basically, its dry ink powder.
The laser is used to set up a pattern of charged/neutral areas on the roller, which then picks up ink with the static charge, and melts it onto the page.
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Somebody should invent a "superlaser" printer, that scorches the top layers of the paper black and dosen't need any ink at all. 
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March 3rd, 2005, 09:07 PM
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Re: OT: suggest a printer
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Basically, its dry ink powder.
The laser is used to set up a pattern of charged/neutral areas on the roller, which then picks up ink with the static charge, and melts it onto the page.
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Somebody should invent a "superlaser" printer, that scorches the top layers of the paper black and dosen't need any ink at all.
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LOL, I had a LJ III that more or less did that the other day. Pages came out dark brown and smoking.
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March 3rd, 2005, 09:26 PM
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Re: OT: suggest a printer
Well, what printer to get depends on what you want -- laser printers are more expensive up front, but use less ink. Buy laser if you want to print lots and lots of B&W pages... or a color laser if you're really into it. Otherwise, get an inkjet and use the minimum ink settings (HP5550 is the way to go! I love mine)
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Re: OT: suggest a printer
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Basically, its dry ink powder.
The laser is used to set up a pattern of charged/neutral areas on the roller, which then picks up ink with the static charge, and melts it onto the page.
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Somebody should invent a "superlaser" printer, that scorches the top layers of the paper black and dosen't need any ink at all.
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Funny...I always thought that that was how they worked... 
Ok, given that a laser is photons and not electrons, how does it set up static charges?
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Re: OT: suggest a printer
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Ok, given that a laser is photons and not electrons, how does it set up static charges?
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The photons ionize some of the atoms in the roller.
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Re: OT: suggest a printer
The Roller is a Fuser. And they will instantly blister your fingertips if you touch it while clearing a paper jam.
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March 3rd, 2005, 10:39 PM
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Thanks. SJ already said it was photoelectric on the #spaceempires channel.
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Re: OT: suggest a printer
For me a printer that can print nice color photo images is all I need. A scanner ability is nice as well but I could never figure out what is the best DPI settting for a scanner / printer so I really if the printer can just print documents its ok in my book.
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