A laser color printer is a common printer that is used widely and will will leave sharp images and text on all types of paper just like a monochrome laser printer does.
How Does it Work?
A laser color printer contains a laser beam that scans the text or image onto a drum, there is a complex chain of technical events that result in dry powder ink being affixed to paper. The ink is affixed to the paper with heat. They will use color toner to affix the image to the paper.
History
The first laser printer surprisingly enough was invented in nineteen sixty nine, this seems a bit counterintuitive because most people think that printers are relatively new and have not been around for forty years.
The first commercially available laser color printer was manufactured and readied for sale by IBM. Ten years later the first laser color printer was sold for office use. These first models were very expensive, around twenty thousand dollars and were used only by certain industries that had a call for high resolution images. By nineteen eighty four the cost for a laser color printer had dropped dramatically to one third what a laser color printer cost in nineteen eighty one. As time passed and personal computers came down in price so did the laser color printer. Not only did the price come down but the performance increased as well.
Times have definitely changed, as with most electronic devices the laser color printer has improved greatly over the last forty years and the cost is relatively low. A laser color printer can be purchased now for under one hundred dollars.
Applications
A laser color printer can be used for any application that any other type of printer is used for. It can print text and images. It is favored for printing pictures and other images because of its clear sharp transfer and its quick transfer rate. As technology has improved additional features have been added creating a multi function laser printer and other specialty types of laser printers such as a laser printer scanner combo.
Benefits
There are definite benefits to using a laser color printer over other types of printers. Some can print over one hundred pages per minute. Of course these are the higher end printers. Operation of a laser color printer can be significantly less expensive than operating printers of other types.
Largely the cost will be associated with the replacement of the drum the paper that is used and the toner replacement. The newer models are focused on energy savings and can offer a significant savings in the energy that is consumed by the laser color printer, and the frequency of replacing the consumable parts.
Where to Purchase
A laser color printer is widely available any place that printers are sold. There are many manufacturers that are long standing manufacturers of printers that offer them as part of their line.
The outlay of cash might be higher for a laser color printer especially if you purchase one of the specialty types such as a wireless laser printer, but the difference in cost can be made up quickly through energy savings and consumable part replacement. There are plenty of options for purchasing them, a simple web search will offer plenty of resources.