Taking a Closer Look at Laser Printers
Do you own a laser printer or use laser printers, but have no idea about the inner components of what makes it up and how it actually works? Well, this post is for those who own (and love) their laser printers and want to get to know them better. Firstly, a laser printer contains what is known as a “printer controller” which is essentially an inbuilt computer inside laser printers. The job of the printer controller is to communicate with the computer (or network of computers/devices) that send a command to print. Now let’s get a detailed look at the inside of laser printers and what goes on in there: RIP the Page Sounds freaky? It’s actually quite fascinating to learn how the printer controller sees the page you send it to print and prepares it for printing. It takes the page and uses what’s called a raster image processor (RIP) to literally break down the page into millions and millions of tiny dots. All this information is internally saved in the built in printer memory so that even if you have to print more than one copy of the same document you only need to send in one command. [...]
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