In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Richard Steinfeld <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> PS: For them who don't know, LED printers are identical to laser
> printers except that the image is created on the drum not with a
> laser assembly but with a row of LEDs. Thus, the LED printer's
> image generating system has no moving parts. Elegant.

therefore, an LED printer is NOT identical to a laser printer. They use
radically different imaging technologies to draw the image itself onto
the photoreceptor.

What's popularly called a "laser printer" is part of a class of printers
known as "page printers". Such printers must assemble the entire page
bitmap in memory before it fires up the imaging system and pulls paper.

Compare this to line or character printers, which don't have to know a
thing about the entire page--they just take in character commands, one
at a time, and execute them.

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>What's popularly called a "laser printer" is part of a class of printers
>known as "page printers". Such printers must assemble the entire page
>bitmap in memory before it fires up the imaging system and pulls paper.
>
>Compare this to line or character printers, which don't have to know a
>thing about the entire page--they just take in character commands, one
>at a time, and execute them.

I dunno. If you put that page eject character in the band/chain/line printers it
became a page printer in a hurry. <smile>

Tony
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