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Definition: Laser Printer |
Laser PrinterNoun1. Electrostatic printer that focuses a laser beam to form images that are transferred to paper electrostatically. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Laser printer |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The process is very similar to the type of dry process photocopier first produced by Xerox.
An electric charge is first sprayed onto a revolving drum by a corona wire. The drum has a surface of a special plastic or garnet. Electronics drives a system that writes light onto the drum. The light causes the electrostatic charge to leak from the exposed parts of the drum. The surface of the drum passes through a bath of dry plastic powder. The charged parts of the drum electrostaticaly attract the particles of powder. The drum then deposits the powder on a piece of paper. The paper passes through a fusor, which bonds the plastic powder to the paper.
Each of these steps has numerous technical choices. One of the more interesting choices is that most "laser" printers actually use a linear array of light-emitting diodes to write the light on the drum. The toner can be either wax or plastic. The paper can be oppositely charged, or not. The fusor can be an infrared oven, a heated roller, or (on some very fast, expensive printers) a xenon strobe.
The slowest printers of this type print about four pages per minute, and are inexpensive. The fastest print mass mailings (commonly for utilities) at several thousand pages per minute.
The cost of this technology depends on a combination of costs of paper, toner replacement, and drum replacement. Often printers with soft plastic drums can have a very high cost of ownership that does not become apparent until the drum requires replacement. Follow manufacturer's instructions on replacing these components.
One helpful trait is that in very high volume offices, a duplexing printer, that prints both sides, can often halve paper costs, and reduce filing volumes and floor weight as well.
Many premium units also have a toner-conservation mode. It can be substantially more economical at the price of only slightly lower contrast.
Aside from these components, typical maintenance is to vacuum the mechanism, and eventually clean or replace the paper-handling rollers. The rollers are rubber, and eventually become covered with slippery paper dust. They can usually be cleaned with a damp lint-free rag.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laser printer."
Crosswords: Laser Printer |
| Specialty definitions using "laser printer": ANSI standard ♦ built-in font ♦ font on-line ♦ internal font ♦ lase, LED printer ♦ non-impact printer ♦ PC WORK STATION. (references) |
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Business | Customers prefer copiers that offer options for plain paper fax, laser printer and scanner all in one machine. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
laser printer | 3,060 |
color laser printer | 2,957 |
hp laser printer | 288 |
laser printer toner cartridge | 139 |
brother laser printer | 131 |
laser printer review | 94 |
hp color laser printer | 93 |
laser printer toner | 93 |
lexmark laser printer | 70 |
laser printer repair | 69 |
laser printer supply | 60 |
samsung laser printer | 56 |
hewlett packard laser printer | 43 |
canon laser printer | 42 |
epson laser printer | 38 |
laser printer part | 37 |
multifunction laser printer | 33 |
xerox laser printer | 31 |
panasonic laser printer | 27 |
used laser printer | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laser printer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鐳射印表機 , 激光"引機 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | laserstråleskriver (laser writer, laser-beam printer), laserskriver (laser writer, laser-beam printer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | laserstraal-regeldrukker (laser writer, laser-beam printer), laserstraaldrukker (laser writer, laser-beam printer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mikrojulkaisutoiminta (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), mikrojulkaisu (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | imprimante laser (laser writer, laser-beam printer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Laserdrucker (electrophotographic printer, laser, laser writer, laser-beam printer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκτυπωτήσ λέιζερ, εκτυπωτής λέιζερ (laser writer, laser-beam printer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stampante a laser (laser writer, laser-beam printer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ルミノール試" (free loader, lake, laser, laser disk, laserknife, Laserwriter, LD, Le Monde, loafer, luminol test, lung, racer, rake, rumba, tramp, unemployed person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | レーザープリンター , レーザープリンタ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aserlay interpray laser (laser), impressora laser (laser writer, laser-beam printer). (various references) impresora láser (laser writer, laser-beam printer). (various references) laserskrivare. (various references) เครื่องพิมพ์ระบบคอมพิวเตอร์ที่ใช้แสงเลเซอร์. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Laser Printer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: laserprinter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-p-r-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: errantries, reprinters, restrainer. | |
-3 letters: antisleep, aperients, elaterins, entailers, interlaps, nearliest, palterers, parterres, pearliest, pearlites, penalties, pistareen, plasterer, pretrains, pretrials, rareripes, repairers, replaster, reprinter, retailers, retainers, sparteine, tapelines, ternaries, terrapins, transpire, traplines, treenails, triplanes. | |
-4 letters: alieners, alterers, aperient, arenites, arrester, arsenite, arteries, ateliers, earliest, elaterin, enlister, entailer, entrails, epistler, espalier, eternals, inserter, interlap, latrines, leariest, learners, listener, naperies, nearlier, painters, palterer, paltrier, panelist, pantiles, pantries, parietes, parterre, partiers, partners, pearlers, pearlier, pearlite, peltries, penalise, penlites, perineal, perlites, pertains, petaline, petrales, pilaster, pilsener, pinaster, plainest, plaister, plaiters, planters, pleaters, plenties, pralines, prelates, prerenal, prerinse, pretrain, pretrial, printers, pristane, rareripe, ratlines, realiser, realters, realties, rearrest, reenlist, reinsert, reinters, relapser, relaters, relearns, relearnt, rentiers, repaints, repairer, repanels, repiners, replants, replates, repliers, reprints, reprisal, reptiles, resinate, restrain, retailer, retainer, retinals, retirers, retrains, retrials, ripeners, sepaline, silenter, snarlier, sparrier, splinter, sprinter, starrier, stearine, strainer, tapeline, taperers, tarriers, telerans, terrains, terranes, terrapin, terriers, terrines, trailers, trainees, trainers, trapline, treenail, trenails, triplane. | |
-5 letters: aeriest, alerter, aliener, aliners, alpines, alterer, anestri, antlers, antsier, aperies, aplites, arenite, arpents, artsier, aspirer, atelier, earlier, earners, earnest, eastern, elapine, elastin, elaters, entails, enteral, entires, entraps, entries, epistle, erepsin, errants, eternal, etesian, lateens, latrine, leaners, leanest, leapers, learier, learner, leister, liernes, lineate, linters, lisente, nailers, nailset, nastier, nearest, nestler, painter, paliest, palters, paniers, panties, pantile, parents, parrels, parries, partier, parties, partner, pastern, pastier, patines, pearler, pearter, peatier, pelites, pelters, penates, penlite, pensile, penster, perinea, perlite, perries, persalt, pertain, pestier, petrale, petrels, piaster, piastre, pileate, pilsner, pineals, pintles, pirates, plainer, plaints, plaiter, planers, planets, planter, plaster, platens, platers, platier, platies, pleaser, pleater, plenist, praiser, praline, praters, prelate, presale, present, prester, printer, prisere, psalter, pterins, railers, ranters, rapiers, rapines, raspier, ratines, ratline, ratlins, realest, realise, realist, realter, reapers, rearers, reearns, reinter, relapse, relater, relates, relearn, relents, reliant, reliers, relines, renails, rentals, renters, rentier, repaint, repairs, repanel, repeals, repeats, repents, repiner, repines, replans, replant, replate, replier, replies, reprint, reprise, reptile, reraise, rerisen, reslate, respelt, respire, respite, resplit, retails, retains, retapes, retears, retiles, retinae, retinal, retinas, retines, retirer, retires, retrain, retrial, retries, retsina, ripener, salient, saltern, saltier, saltine, saltire, sapient, seriate, serpent, serrate, setline, sierran, slainte, slatier, snarler, spaniel, spearer, spelean, spelter, spieler, spinate, spirant, splenia, stainer, stapler, stealer, stearin, sterile, sternal, sterner, stirrer, striper, tailers, talipes, taperer, tarrier, tarries, tarsier, tearers, tearier, teleran, tenails, tensile, terrain, terrane, terrier, terries, terrine, trailer, trainee, trainer, traipse, trenail, trepans, trienes, triples. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 73 65 72 50 72 69 6E 74 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110011 01100101 01110010 00100000 01010000 01110010 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a s e r   P r i n t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0073 0065 0072 0050 0072 0069 006E 0074 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667857184250847580867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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