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Understanding Working Principles Laser Printer: Click To Edit Master Subtitle Style

Laser printers use a xerographic printing process involving 7 main steps: 1) A raster image processor creates a bitmap of the page from the page description language. 2) A corona wire or roller charges a photoreceptor drum. 3) A laser exposes the drum by discharging the areas that will receive toner. 4) Toner particles adhere to the exposed areas of the drum. 5) The toned image is transferred to paper. 6) Heat and pressure fuse the toner to the paper. 7) A blade cleans excess toner from the drum in preparation for the next page.

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Understanding Working Principles Laser Printer: Click To Edit Master Subtitle Style

Laser printers use a xerographic printing process involving 7 main steps: 1) A raster image processor creates a bitmap of the page from the page description language. 2) A corona wire or roller charges a photoreceptor drum. 3) A laser exposes the drum by discharging the areas that will receive toner. 4) Toner particles adhere to the exposed areas of the drum. 5) The toned image is transferred to paper. 6) Heat and pressure fuse the toner to the paper. 7) A blade cleans excess toner from the drum in preparation for the next page.

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UNDERSTANDING WORKING PRINCIPLES LASER PRINTER

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BY: to edit Master subtitle style Click RASHMI CHAUHAN

LASER PRINTERS

INTRODUCTION:

Alaser printeris a common type ofcomputer printerthat rapidly produces high quality text and graphics onplain paper. Laser printers employ axerographicprinting process. A laser beam projects an image of the page to be printed onto an electrically charged rotating drum coated withseleniumor, more common in modern printers, organicphotoconductors. Photoconductivityremoves charge from the areas exposed to light. Dry ink (toner) particles are then electrostatically picked up by the drum's charged areas. The drum then prints the image onto paper by direct contact and heat, which fuses the ink to the paper.

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WORKING IN DETAIL
Typically seven steps involved in the laser printing process:
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Raster image processing- Each horizontal strip of dots across the page is known as arasterline orscan line. Creating the image to be printed is done by aRaster Image Processor(RIP), typically built into the laser printer. The RIP uses the page description language to generate a bitmap of the final page in the raster memory. Charging - acorona wirepositioned parallel to the drum, or in more recent printers, a primary charge roller, projects anelectrostatic charge onto the photoreceptor , a revolving photosensitive drum or belt, which is capable of holding an electrostatic charge on its surface while it is in the dark.
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AnACbias is applied to the primary charge roller to remove any residual charges left by previous images. The roller will also apply aDC bias on the drum surface to ensure a uniform negative potential.

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3. Exposing - The laser is aimed at a rotating polygonal mirror, which directs the laser beam through a system of lenses and mirrors onto the photoreceptor. The cylinder continues to rotate during the sweep and the angle of sweep compensates for this motion. The stream of rasterized data held in memory turns the laser on and off to form the dots on the cylinder. Lasers are used because they generate a narrow beam over great 5/4/12 distances. The laser beam neutralizes (or

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4. Developing - The surface with the latent image is exposed totoner, fine particles of dry plastic powder mixed with carbon black or coloring agents. The charged toner particles are given a negative charge, and are electrostatically attracted to the photoreceptor's latent image, the areas touched by the laser. Because like charges repel, the negatively charged toner will not touch the drum where the negative charge 5/4/12 remains.

6. Fusing - The paper passes through rollers in the fuser assembly where heat (up to 200 Celsius) and pressure bond the plastic powder to the paper. One roller is usually a hollow tube (heat roller) and the other is a rubber backing roller (pressure roller). A radiant heat lamp is suspended in the center of the hollow tube, and its infrared energy uniformly heats the roller from the inside. For proper bonding of the toner, the fuser roller must be uniformly hot.

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7. Cleaning - When the print is complete, an electrically neutral soft plastic blade cleans any excess toner from the photoreceptor and deposits it into a waste reservoir, and a discharge lamp removes the remaining charge from the photoreceptor.

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