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Color Laser ?

post #1 of 4
2/7/10 at 9:02pm
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My only experience with a color laser goes back about 5 years ago. There was one at work and all the toner that did not stick to the paper went into a waste bin. When the waste bin would fill, a light would go on and you would empty it.

I know in a monochrome laser, the black toner that does not stick to the paper goes back into the drum. The color laser process that I described is a waste of toner. Do current color laser printers still operate still waste toner like that?
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post #2 of 4
2/8/10 at 12:37am
I think you're thinking of a really old style of printer that isn't used any more that doesn't use toner cartridges, but uses rolls of ink paper in roller cartridges...while still commercially available, those printers simply aren't made anymore because they only turn out so many sheets before becoming useless. Modern printers using toner cartridges operate on a different principle where the laser actually heats a drum and as the drum rotates, it picks up the ink to be transferred to the paper and then rolls over the paper, only transferring a minuscule amount of ink. It's the same exact principle as a copy machine, but using a laser instead of an actual image. Also, all modern toner cartridges work the same way, whether they're black, red, blue, or yellow.

edit: I should mention that I worked at Office Depot for two summers and the absolute best way to get a good deal on a printer is to select a model and wait for the Sunday flyers to bring you news that your model is on sale. We had a $300 color laser printer that got knocked down to $100 for two weeks out of the 11-12 weeks I worked there one summer.
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post #3 of 4
2/8/10 at 2:57am
I work on copiers for a living. Both black and white and color copiers have a waste toner bin in it. Some will recycle the unused drum toner back in the developer but it gets waste toner off of the transfer sheet and paper transfer areas of the copier. Its not wasting toner. The copier uses static to make the toner jump from the drum to the transfer sheet to the paper and requires a persise amount of +/- polarity charged toner to start with to make the process work making the toner that has already made its first leap obsolete and has to be discarded. Hope this helps.
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post #4 of 4
2/8/10 at 11:23am
We have a color laser printer at work and it works like any other printer. Any modern laser printer should work fine.
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