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Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?

Never knew how an argument about a photocopier could get this heated. Watch this video and witness the dialogue which is presented verbatim.

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Posted by UsedCopiers - June 23, 2014 at 9:32 am

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Q&A: How many types of printers are there and what are the differences ?

Question by babu: How many types of printers are there and what are the differences ?

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Answer by Timothy

There are four main types.

Thermal – Like the old fax machines, uses a waxy paper heated to put an image on paper. Some portable printers use this.

Inkjet – Uses liquid ink put through little nozzles that are heated up and force the ink out onto the paper. Most popular

Laser – Uses a laser beam on a photo sensitive film to attract toner (fine powder, no liquid here) and then puts the toner on the paper. Then the paper goes through a fusor to fuse the toner to the paper.

Solid ink – Xerox only, uses wax based crayons to put an image on paper.

Most people have inkjet, or a small laser. Solid ink is for busy offices mainly that want a good quality with good speed.

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Posted by UsedCopiers - April 3, 2013 at 1:23 pm

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Why are heated rollers used in photocopy machines?

Question by Sez1o1: Why are heated rollers used in photocopy machines?
In relation with static electricity, why are heated rollers used in photo copy machines?

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Answer by Daniel
Essentially, a copier “paints” the photoreceptor drum or belt with static electricity, creating a patch of positively charged images of letters surrounded by negatively charged areas that will remain white.

Once the image of the document has been statically “painted” on the drum or belt, the copying system covers the plate with a negatively-charged black powder called toner. Wherever the toner particles find positively-charged areas on the photoreceptor, they will stick like the pepper flakes on a statically-charged comb. The toner will not stick to the negatively-charged areas of the belt or drum, so those areas will remain white.

After the toner particles have settled into the positively-charged areas, a sheet of paper is introduced above the photoreceptor. A Corona wire passes over this paper to give it a positive charge. The toner particles are transferred to the charged paper and now resemble the image of the original document. The toner is still in the form of a loose powder, however, so the new copy is pressed through a set of heated rollers known as a fuser. The heat of the fuser melts the toner into the paper permanently.

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Posted by UsedCopiers - July 23, 2012 at 1:37 pm

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