Talk:Laser printing

message: Several thousand pages per minute!  Any examples? Rich Farmbrough
* When the How it works section was 'moved' to Xerography, much of the other pertinent information was deleted. I edited Xerography to reflect the numbered list and returned the other information back to How it works --Ghaberek
* The IBM InfoPrint 4001 does just over 1000 ppm ... but it's not technically a laser, rather a electrophotograhic printer; cannot find any lasers anywhere greater than about 150 ppm. --69.156.88.203 05:05, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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message: I think the article should say what the dpi resoltion of these printers is
just a few words about the chemicals that make the photoconductive drum function would be super beneficial; I heard the laserwriter I was a Se compound, but that was a while ago  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.211.106.254 (talk) 20:30, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  resolution as well as physics 

message: I question the validity of the statement about soft plastic drums and their durability. I believe that all the organic photoconductors in use today (heavy metals are no longer employed) have an image transfer layer. This is the outer coating that actually makes contact with the toner and paper. It serves to protect the actual photoconductor material from wear. It is my belief that from the consumer's standpoint, softness of the drum is irrelevant. The architecture of the developer and the drum cleaning apparatus is more likely to have an effect on the drum's longevity, assuming lack of human 'intervention'. LorenzoB 18:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soft plastic drum? 

message: I see one editor changed all instances of "colour" to "color" and more recently another editor changed them all back to "colour".  I suggest we remember that Wikipedia participants reside in many locations.  Some live where "color" is the correct spelling and other live where "colour" is correct.  As this is an international effort, neither spelling is truelly incorrect.
Since the laser printer was invented in a region where "color" is correct, there might be an argument for using US spelling conventions.  However, the important thing, in my opinion, is to stop wasting time and effort changing between the two conventions.   Pzavon 00:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that's sufficient ground. According to WP:MOS we're only really talking about cases when the ties are clear. Cases like for a US movie or an Australian book or a Canadian food or on the Kiwi are cases when it's clear the subject has a clear tie to a region. Although laser printers may have been invented in the US, they're international items now prevalent throughout the world made by a number of companies without any real ties to anywhere. Therefore we should stick with the original substanial usage (& be consistent). The original contributor appears to be an American, and although I didn't notice in particular American usage, I think it's enough IMHO for us to stick with American usage (even if it means we need ugly spellings like color :-P) Nil Einne 18:39, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling wars 

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message: Can someone add a bit on how laser is less costly and a better value.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericg33 (talk • contribs) 08:10, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost versus inkjet 

message: It seems to me that having 2 HP printer pictures at the top of this article is inappropriate. It would seem wiser or more encyclopedic to have a xerox 8010 or an IBM 3800 instead. Other possible pictures could be of the internals of a modern laser printer, as the brand, logo and plastic shell aren't what matters in this article. 80.4.75.175 (talk) 15:38, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures in this article 

message: It seems that the introduction of the Apple Laserwriter in 1985 should be mentioned as an event. The combination of Adobe Postscript with laser printer technology launched desktop publishing.  This seems like a fairly serious omission. --Paul (talk) 15:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apple Laserwriter and the history section 

message: The following content was taken from the printer (computing) article. I do not know if it is of any use here, as there is already a section on respiratory health risks in the article. If you use it, please indicate the article it came from to preserve attribution. 
:Recent research has also indicated that laser printers emit potentially dangerous ultrafine particles, possibly causing health problems associated with respiration  and cause pollution equivalent to cigarettes.Printers pose health risks: study – Technology – theage.com.au The degree of particle emissions varies with age, model and design of each printer but is generally proportional to the amount of toner required. Furthermore, a well ventilated workspace would allow such ultrafine particles to disperse thus reducing the health side effects.
-- Kjkolb (talk) 22:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Health issues content from another article

message: While not, strictly speaking , a laser printer, an experimental xerographic printing device was demonstrated by Keith Huntley of the Central Research Laboratories of Rank Precision Industries Ltd, UK (part of Rank-Xerox Ltd) in March 1958. A prototype Xeronic printer was exhibited at the Electronic Computer Exhibition in London in November-December 1958. It seems that by at least 1962, the device was fully developed. By 1964, a printer was in use on the Leo computer. It printed at 2,888 lines per minute. The printer used a combination of a CRT to generated characters and a lamp and photographic film to generate forms information.
(Information from LEO:the first Business computer by Peter Bird ).
I suspect that Gary Starkweather's invention was simply a matter of parallel independent invention.
Just as an LED printer is widely regarded as the same technology as a laser printer, the Xeronic printer can also be regarded as the same technology.
It would be better to merge this article with the LED printer article into a single Xerographic printer article. (Note that it would not be appropriate to merge this into Page Printer, because dot matrix and impact printers can also be page printers. Note that the Xeronic printer printed onto continuous stationary.). 
It would probably be better to have laser printer (and LED printer) redirect to Xerographic printer, since I agree that laser printer it the common name, even though LED printer is not strictly speaking a laser printer. If the Laser printer page is retained, then the introduction should make it clear that (most of) the page is talking about Xerographic printers, and there are different types, namely laser, LED and CRT/film light.
[[[User:Kulath|Kulath]] (talk) 11:18, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Prior invention

message: Under the Toner clean-up section (great section, btw, Thanks!), it says "If toner spills into the laser printer, a special type of vacuum cleaner with an electrically conductive hose and a high efficiency (HEPA) filter may be needed for effective cleaning."
Should that say "electrically non-conductive hose"? 
Thanks! 
Misty MH (talk) 01:45, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably shouldn't say either without a source.  So I looked for one and found this 2009 book that says exactly what this article said since 2007.  And they claim copyright of this material copied from wikipedia!  Dicklyon (talk) 06:23, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toner clean-up question about "electrically conductive hose": Should that say "electrically non-conductive hose"? 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: In the first paragraph of this article, there is the sentence:
:with digital photocopiers and multifunction/all-in-one inkjet printers, laser printers employ a xerographic printing process.
Does anyone know of an ink-jet device that uses a xerographic process? All of these devices use raster imaging, while "analog" devices don't; is that perhaps what the writer was trying to express?
--MichaelMJ (talk) 04:03, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that's an obvious error introduced by this edit on 11 October 2014. It wasn't caught at the time because 50% of the edits made in that same edit were valid. Actually, the more I look at this, I'm beginning to realize half the edits made in that edit were invalid, which means it appears to be vandalism. I propose to countermand all edits made by that user and to revert back to the last good version. Any objections? --Coolcaesar (talk) 08:49, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should ink-jet printers be cited in this article? 

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message: Didn't the Xerox 1200 come out before the IBM 3800 and the Xerox 9700? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 17:50, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: yes. https://digitalprinting.blogs.xerox.com/2012/09/28/flashback-friday-the-xerox-1200-computer-printing-system  Pi314m (talk) 08:59, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  First on the block 

message: I propose that sections Smart chips in toner cartridges be moved to Toner cartridge. This section is more related to the topic of Toner cartridge. This section discusses a component of the cartridge, not of the laser printer. Ziounclesi (talk) 17:04, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move "smart chips in toner cartridges" section ( Split and merging proposal) 

message: "However, laser printing differs from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning of the medium across the printer's photoreceptor." What does this gibberish mean? I am going to take out this sentence unless someone clarifies this or puts in a citation soon. --Coolcaesar (talk) 22:42, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I'm fixing this. I specialized in the history of computer science in college and I can't make heads or tails of this nonsense. --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:38, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The lead paragraph has a gibberish sentence