Ever wondered how your Toner cartridge or Printer Ink Cartridge works? Or need help with installing your ink cartridges? Find helpful tips and instructions on everything about printers and printer cartridges in our help guides. This guide shows you how your laser printer works

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PRINTER INK AND TONER CARTRIDGE GUIDES
Ever wondered how your Toner cartridge or Printer Ink
Cartridge works? Or need help with installing your ink
cartridges? Find helpful tips and instructions on everything
about printers and printer cartridges in our help guides.

2. How Your Laser Printer Works
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3. Definition of laser printer:
laser printer
laser print¦er
NOUN
a printer linked to a computer producing good-quality printed material by using a
laser to form a pattern of electrostatically charged dots on a light-sensitive drum,
which attract toner (or dry ink powder). The toner is transferred to a piece of paper
and fixed by a heating process.
Oxford Dictionary
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Your PC ‘talks’ to your
printer through this
Controller translating
printing data through
a Raster Image
Processor (RIP)
converting your
printed work into
millions of little dots.
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The Imaging Drum,
or Photoconductor, is
a specially coated
cylinder that has a
positive or negative
charge.
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The Charging Roller
sends a positive or
negative charge to the
Imaging Drum.
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The Laser Beam
switches on and off
intermittently.
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8. 5
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This Rotating Mirror
deflects the laser beam
onto the drum,
scanning the charged
drum reversing the
charge of the dots that
are to be printed.
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6
The Developer
Roller is coated in
charged toner
particles from the
Toner Cartridge.
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7
The Toner Hopper ,
part of the Toner
Cartridge, feeds toner
particles onto the
Developer Roller.
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11. 8
The Transfer Belt or Roller
Assembly draws paper
inside from the paper tray .
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12. 9
The Paper Tray.
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13. 10
A Transfer
Roller applies a charge
opposite the toner's, to
the paper.
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14. 11
A Cleaning Blade cleans
the drum.
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Finally the Fuser, a heat
roller and a pressure
roller, melts the toner
onto the page.
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Finally the Fuser, a heat
roller and a pressure
roller, melts the toner
onto the page.
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