Printer Technologies
Printer Technologies
Mohammed A Bahha
St. Ambrose University
Abstract
Printers are increasingly improved each year. At the meantime, printers have reached approximately more than six different technologies such as inkjet printing, laser printing, solid ink printing, thermal printing, and 3D printing. My research will explain some of the technologies which are inkjet printing, laser printing, solid ink printing and 3D printing. First of all, inkjet printing will be detailed in three points which are the two technologies of inkjet printers, the advantages, what kind of ink it uses, and where it is usually used. Second, the paper examines how a laser printer works and where it is mostly consumed. Third, the paper explains the procedure of solid ink printing and the history of solid ink technology. Finally, the paper specifies what a 3D printing is and what differences between commercial and personal 3D printers are. At the end of my research a technique will be explained about accessing a printer from anywhere and anytime whether it’s from a cell phone or a work computer or laptop.
“A computer printer is a device that would allow a user to create a hardcopy of a document or image that is electronically created.”(Arkin, 2008) The market has variety of technologies focused on printers. There are two types of printer technology which are impact and non-impact printers. Impact printer is kind of undeveloped type, and there is one type that still exists in the market nowadays and is being used by customers which is the dot-matrix printer. The reason why an impact printer is considered as undeveloped is it’s limited in functions, it uses the same process that a typewriter uses which means the printer head must touch a ribbon and a paper, and lastly it’s quite noisy. The second type, the focus of this paper, is non-impact printers. A non-impact printer is a sophisticated type. It works smoothly and without having a printer head to touch a paper in order to transfer
Mohammed A Bahha
St. Ambrose University
Abstract
Printers are increasingly improved each year. At the meantime, printers have reached approximately more than six different technologies such as inkjet printing, laser printing, solid ink printing, thermal printing, and 3D printing. My research will explain some of the technologies which are inkjet printing, laser printing, solid ink printing and 3D printing. First of all, inkjet printing will be detailed in three points which are the two technologies of inkjet printers, the advantages, what kind of ink it uses, and where it is usually used. Second, the paper examines how a laser printer works and where it is mostly consumed. Third, the paper explains the procedure of solid ink printing and the history of solid ink technology. Finally, the paper specifies what a 3D printing is and what differences between commercial and personal 3D printers are. At the end of my research a technique will be explained about accessing a printer from anywhere and anytime whether it’s from a cell phone or a work computer or laptop.
“A computer printer is a device that would allow a user to create a hardcopy of a document or image that is electronically created.”(Arkin, 2008) The market has variety of technologies focused on printers. There are two types of printer technology which are impact and non-impact printers. Impact printer is kind of undeveloped type, and there is one type that still exists in the market nowadays and is being used by customers which is the dot-matrix printer. The reason why an impact printer is considered as undeveloped is it’s limited in functions, it uses the same process that a typewriter uses which means the printer head must touch a ribbon and a paper, and lastly it’s quite noisy. The second type, the focus of this paper, is non-impact printers. A non-impact printer is a sophisticated type. It works smoothly and without having a printer head to touch a paper in order to transfer
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