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it seems like not that long ago that handing in a freshly printed essay from

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your shiny new inkjet printer made you the coolest kid in class at least in

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your own mind anyway but nowadays printers that could have cost you a

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pretty penny in the mid 1990s are handed out like candy with new pc purchases and

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it's never been easier to afford something that will inexplicably stop

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working at 2: a.m. the night before your turn paper is due so how exactly do

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printers work and what makes them well some of them so

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unreliable now you probably already know that the two main types of printers for

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Home and Office use are inkjet and Laser unless of course you've still got one of

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those old dot matrix printers from the 80s cuz you get a kick out of tearing

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off those little strips on the edge of the paper and both of them have

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advantages and disadvantages which we actually briefly covered in this video

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but let's have a look at them in a little bit more depth first up we've got

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laser printers which use you guessed it

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a freaking laser beam to create prints

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Laser Printers also contain a rotating cylinder coated with a photosensitive

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electrically charged material and a series of mirrors when you send a

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document to a laser printer the laser light is reflected by the mirrors onto

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the cylinder which neutralizes the electrical charge in specific areas

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thanks to the rotation of both the cylinder and the the mirrors as well as

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the laser turning on and off at precisely the correct moments the areas

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hit by the laser correspond to the actual print and when toner particles

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hit the cylinder they only stick to the areas exposed to the laser light because

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the toner itself has an electrical charge too cool right then a sheet of

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paper is pressed against the cylinder and the toner is transferred through to

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the paper using heat which fuses the T owner to it which is why Pages fresh out

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of a laser printer are always so nice and cuddly warm due to the Precision of

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the laser these kinds of printers are great for producing crisp clear text the

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other major player the inkjet printer is very very different like the name says

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this sort of printer uses Liquid Ink instead of solid toner particles in

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consumer models ink inside of those expensive cartridges is heated with an

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electric charge causing a small amount to vaporize and form a bubble on the

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nozzle the bubble then collapses and the

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pressure difference pulls a droplet of

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ink out of the cartridge and onto the paper because their internal workings

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are simpler than Laser Printers they tend to be significantly cheaper and

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although they can't print as quickly they give much better print quality for

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photos making them the go-to choice if you like to print your own snapshots at

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at home unfortunately though many inkjet owners have been disappointed by their

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printer's reliability so then why is it that they seem to give people such a

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hard time well part of it is because printers have so many small moving parts

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that can break or wear out not to mention the small nozzles that can clog

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easily but perhaps a bigger part of the reason is the business model of inkjet

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manufacturers the printers themselves are frequently sold at a loss so ink

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refills can cost more than the actual printers themselves also many cartridges

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contain smart chips that report that they're empty even if there is still

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leftover ink but fortunately there are workarounds for this you can find online

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and we're even starting to see Alternatives appear on the market such

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as epson's new system that uses permanent high-capacity ink tanks

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instead of pricey cartridges which will hopefully usher in the day when we no

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longer need to sell vital organs just to afford some vacation photo printting

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