What Should I Consider When Buying a Color Laser Printer?

A color laser printer is a high-cost, high-efficiency, high-quality color printout device.

Color laser printer

Color laser printer is a kind of high cost and high efficiency color printing

The image effect of the previous color laser printer is not excellent, and the whole picture

The printing speed of a color laser printer is directly affected by factors such as the main frequency of the processor, the dedicated image processing chip, the internal data channel bandwidth, whether it can process multiple images at the same time, and whether high-speed interface technology is used. However, the printing speed generally refers to the normal output rate of the color laser printer in the standard color printing mode, and the ordinary color laser printer generally has three modes of the best mode, the standard mode and the draft mode when printing, and their printing speeds are different. The same, and the difference is large. Color laser printers are generally equipped with a 200MHz CPU, with more than 64MB of memory, and some are equipped with 10mBps or 100mBps high-speed network cards, which effectively guarantees the normal printing speed of the device, and also makes the color laser printers generally have automatic dual Printing capability. Because the color laser printer has this flexible printing speed mode, it can meet the needs of different users in different environments or different personalities.

For color laser printers to achieve excellent print quality, they must work under high-performance print driver software. Such print driver software must have intelligent identification that supports print content and the ability to perform corresponding processing in different categories. For example, whether it can correctly distinguish and process dot matrix images, vector graphics, and text with different algorithms, and whether it supports industry color matching standards such as sRGB, Pantone, ColorSync, ICC, etc. These are all important standards for measuring the print quality of color laser printers. The page support language of a color laser printer can not only determine the device's print speed, print quality, color effects, but also affect the compatibility of its operating system and driver software. PostScript3 is a new page description language that fully meets Windows 95/98 / NT And the extensive application requirements of Mac.

In addition to toner cartridges, color laser printers also have three expendable parts: imaging drum, transfer unit, and heating unit. The longer the life of these parts, the lower the price of use, and the lower the cost of single-page printing. Since the color laser printer has a larger printing volume than the monochrome laser printer, the toner cartridge has a heavy workload. In particular, it requires a toner cartridge with good abrasion resistance, strong ability to adapt to harsh working environments, and excellent photosensitive performance. And because the price of color laser printer hardware and color toner consumables has remained high, although its color output quality, output speed and output are first-rate, it will take time for applications to become popular. Therefore, the development direction of color laser printers is mainly to reduce the cost of hardware and consumables. With the great improvement of computer performance, color laser printers can transfer some functions to the computer, or develop an office with more complete functions and performance. All-in-one machine, thus reducing the cost and popularizing the color laser printer.

Basic parameters

Black and white print speed: up to 16ppm

Color print speed: 4ppm

Processor: 266MHz

Memory: 8MB

Network printing: Network printing is not supported

Duplex printing: manual

The color laser printer is based on the black toner of the ordinary monochrome laser printer. The yellow, magenta, and cyan toners are added, and the toner is sensitized four times. The toners of each color are transferred to the transfer toner cartridge. The toner cartridge transfers the graphics onto the printing paper to achieve the result of outputting color graphics. Compared with thermal conversion color printers, color laser printers are a low-cost, high-efficiency, high-quality color printout device.