If you want optimum performance from your laser printer, make sure to buy quality laser printer toner cartridges.
The main advantage of a laser printer over the other types of printer is its ability to print pages and pages of text in a matter of seconds. In fact, some laser printer models can print up to 12,000 pages in an hour. This feature makes it ideal for business use. Laser printers, like copiers and some fax machines, use laser toner for text and graphics to be printed on paper. A laser toner is to laser printers what ink is to inkjet printers.
During the laser printing process, the fuser, a component of the printer, melts the laser toner. The latter becomes electrically charged and becomes attracted to the printer drum. It is then transferred and applied to paper. The printing process is faster because the laser printer handles a large amount of data that needs to be printed in a rapid and continuous process. In contrast, the printing process for inkjet printers and dot-matrix printers is slow and is characterized by pauses since the printer still await for incoming data stream.
Aside from monochrome laser printers, color laser printers are now available in the market. They produce sharp and vivid colors that are ideal for printing colored images. These printers use colored toners consisting usually of the colors cyan, yellow, and magenta. In order to print a document of the same size, a color laser printer needs four times more memory than a monochrome printer.
In addition, maintenance for this kind of laser printer is more expensive because they have more imaging components. To increase the longevity of both types of laser printer, the paper handling rollers should be cleaned or replaced after every print-out of fifty thousand pages.
Most laser printers use a printer toner cartridge that incorporates the photoconductor unit with the supply toner, waste toner bottle and wiper blades. So, when the old toner runs out and a replacement toner is installed, the photoconductor unit, waste toner bottles and blades are also replaced. For high printing quality and performance, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) laser printer toner cartridges should be bought for replacement.
Though they are more expensive than the other kinds of printer toners, their quality is almost always guaranteed. However, if budget is an issue, it would not hurt to buy a compatible printer toner cartridge or have the old laser toner cartridge refilled. Just make sure that your supplier you have chosen is reliable.
