different types of printers
1 They use a type of powdered ink called toner, which sticks to the paper where it has an electronic charge and is permanently melted to the paper using a hot fusing wire.  Laser printers are much more efficient than ink-jet printers, capable of producing several thousand prints from one toner cartridge.
An inkjet printer. 1  An ink-jet printer works through spraying minute dots of ink onto paper to create an image. The dots use a combination of different colours to create photo-realistic images.  The advantage of using an ink-jet printer is that they offer excellent colour output and are cheaper than laser printers.