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myLot reputation of 90/100. alienstar (1564)   ranked 869 out of 8,748 in computers 6 years ago

As you all know that there are three types of printers isn't it? dotmatrix, inkjet and laser printer and what are all the major differences between these three printers here? anyone here?

 

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1. myLot reputation of 93/100. WebMann (2756)   ranked 24 out of 8,748 in computers   6 years ago

The Dot Matrix printer uses a set of pins that pop out and leave ink on the page in the shape of what it is you are printing. Don't ever take that head apart as it's tough to get back together.

The Ink Jet uses hot ink explosions to spay the ink on the page in fine dots. Usually this print head comes with the ink cartridge.

The laser printer uses toner dust that is attracted to the page only where there is an image so that the image gets the toner and the rest of the page rejects it. And this method is more optical than the others.


myLot reputation of 90/100. alienstar (1564)   ranked 869 out of 8,748 in computers  6 years ago

Good and nice response and laser printer is prfered by many and not the other two, dotmatrix and inkjet printers isn't it? olden day's, there were not laser printers and hence people used to dotmatrix printers isn't it?
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2. myLot reputation of 88/100. grudge (276)   ranked 150 out of 8,748 in computers   6 years ago

Dotmatrix : In this printer u get letters of Dot Combination.. This is the Slowest among three..

Inkjet : this is a better one than Dotmatrix and this use a Carteraidge

Laser: This is th ebest among the three. this uses laser for printing. This is also the fastest among three..


myLot reputation of 90/100. alienstar (1564)   ranked 869 out of 8,748 in computers  6 years ago

Yes, you are right and many are using laser printer and dotmatrix is not at all prefered here and more over, dotmatrix quality is also not as good as laser and also speed of dotmatrix is very low comparted to other two, laser and inkjet printers.Quality wise, laser printer is the best among all three here.
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3. myLot reputation of 89/100. lameran (848)   ranked 34 out of 8,748 in computers   6 years ago

dot matrix printer is specifically used for impact printers that use a matrix of small pins to create precise dots. The advantage of dot-matrix over other impact printers is that they can produce graphical images in addition to text; however the text is generally of poorer quality than impact printers that use letterforms

laser printer is a common type of computer printer that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics on plain paper. Like photocopiers, laser printers employ a xerographic printing process but differ from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning of a laser beam across the printer's photoreceptor.

Ink jet printers use one of three main technologies: thermal, piezoelectric, and continuous.

Thermal Ink Jet

Most consumer ink jet printers (Hewlett-Packard Canon) work by having a print cartridge with a series of tiny electrically heated chambers constructed by photolithography. To produce an image, the printer runs a pulse of current through the heating elements. A steam explosion in the chamber forms a bubble, which propels a droplet of ink onto the paper (hence Canon's tradename for its inkjets, Bubblejet). The ink's surface tension pulls another charge of ink into the chamber through a narrow channel attached to an ink reservoir.

The ink used is usually water-based, pigment-based or dye-based but the print head is produced usually at less cost than other ink jet technologies. The technology principle was discovered by Canon engineer Ichiro Endo in August 1977.

Note that this is not the same thing as a thermal printer, commonly found in ATMs and cash register receipt printers.

[edit] Piezoelectric Ink Jet

All Epson printers and most commercial and industrial ink jet printers use a piezoelectric material in an ink-filled chamber behind each nozzle instead of a heating element. When a voltage is applied, the crystal changes shape or size, which generates a pressure pulse in the fluid forcing a droplet of ink from the nozzle. This is essentially the same mechanism as the thermal inkjet but generates the pressure pulse using a different physical principle. Piezoelectric ink jet allows a wider variety of inks than thermal or continuous ink jet but is more expensive.

The emerging Ink jet material deposition market uses ink jet technologies, typically piezoelectric ink jet, to deposit materials on substrates.

[edit] Continuous Ink Jet

The continuous ink jet method is used commercially for marking and coding of products and packages. The first patent on the idea is from 1867, by William Thomson. The first commercial model was introduced in 1951 by Siemens. In continuous ink jet technology, a high-pressure pump directs liquid ink from a reservoir through a Gunbody and a microscopic nozzle, creating a continuous stream of ink droplets. A piezoelectric crystal effects an acoustic wave as it vibrates within the gunbody and causes the stream of liquid to break into droplets at regular intervals - 64000 to 165000 drops per second may be achieved. The ink droplets are subjected to an electrostatic field created by a charging electrode as they form. The field is varied according to the degree of drop deflection desired. This results in a controlled, variable electrostatic charge on each droplet. Charged droplets are separated by one or more uncharged “guard droplets” to minimize electrostatic repulsion between neighboring droplets.

hope that could help you a little bit.


myLot reputation of 90/100. alienstar (1564)   ranked 869 out of 8,748 in computers  6 years ago

Oh...too much information on printers and thank you for giving out these much information on these printers and many people who wants all these will be definitely benifitted by this for sure.Are you in software field?
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4. jamesflores (91)   ranked 1,422 out of 8,748 in computers   6 years ago

Dotmatrix the old type of printer that uses dot to form a letter or an image, usually noisy. The inkjet uses inks that slides tohrough its metal slider, it uses 1 black and 3 color inks to produce text and pictures. Laser the modern printer, that uses laser to produce image and text, this is the fastest among the three.


myLot reputation of 90/100. alienstar (1564)   ranked 869 out of 8,748 in computers  6 years ago

well said..Yes, dotmatrix is the oldest of these and it is not used by many at this time as more and more people are going in for laser as also quality we get is superior and also the print out we get is very fast and not like dotmatrix where it is quite slow....
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5. umanbu (3)   ranked 7,703 out of 8,748 in computers   6 years ago

A dotmatrix printer prints letter by letter where the characters are made of dots . So understandably the quality and the speed of the print is very low.
In Ink jet printers, special ink and heating techniques are used to print the characters .They print a line at a time.
Laser printers use laser light to print the characters and they print a page at a time.So they are the fastest printers so far.


myLot reputation of 90/100. alienstar (1564)   ranked 869 out of 8,748 in computers  6 years ago

Yes, dot matrix printers takes little more time here than other two types of printers here and among al these three types, laser is the most wanted and speed is also good in this and more over quality wiselaser is the best....
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6. myLot reputation of 61/100. sangrah (705)   6 years ago

laser printer is fast printing and dotmatrix is work to page in dot to dot write in page and inkjet is use printing page


myLot reputation of 90/100. alienstar (1564)   ranked 869 out of 8,748 in computers  5 years ago

Yes, laser printing is fast and also the quality we get in laser printer is too good and it is the most prefered printer now over the other two and among these, dotmatrix is the slowest one and not preferd these day's and it is on eof the oldest also.
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7. myLot reputation of 39/100. vil2vin (672)   5 years ago

i don't know the differences between dotmatrix,inkjet,laser printer

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8. myLot reputation of 56/100. letmehelp (687)   5 years ago

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9. myLot reputation of 14/100. ushaka (648)   5 years ago

i don't know

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