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Have you ever wondered how the magic of office printers worked? If you’re a normal person, the answer is probably a resounding, “no”. Fair enough – but call me an inquisitive person, or just a nerdy one, I suppose. Let’s take a look at what it takes to get that shiny, clear, and smudge free document from your word processor’s virtual screen onto your paper.

First off, you have to understand that laser printers work by using LaserJet toner cartridges. Laser technology beams the letters (or graphics, as laser printers are often used in mass production packaging and printing industries) onto a printer drum using photoconductors. It is from this process that ink is picked up using static electricity and placed onto the page using heat to fuse the ink to page. Pretty interesting that all that is happening just a few feet from your desk at work, huh?

Usually, the drum aspect of laser printing and the technology behind LaserJet toner cartridges enables laser printers to operate much more quickly and efficiently than inkjet printers. This is because a rotating drum that allows multiple laser beams to cause ink to fuse to paper is a much quicker process than actual ink jets that shoot ink onto the paper using heat and other micro-mechanics. Ridiculously fast laser printers can print up to 6000 pages an hour – or about 100 a minute!

There are certain advantages to laser printing, to be sure, but there are a few slowdowns that can happen. Often printers can slow down and pause while waiting for data to queue from computer applications because of the flow of data, as opposed to other printers, which acquire all the data up front. Also, lasers cannot often print continuous streams of data that are really long because memory of the printer cannot handle it all at once. Whatever your decision, printer-wise, the technology behind laser printers is compelling.