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History of printing
Techniques
Woodblock printing
200
Movable type
1040
Intaglio (printmaking)
1430
Printing press
c. 1440
Etching
c. 1515
Mezzotint
1642
Relief printing
1690
Aquatint
1772
Lithography
1796
Chromolithography
1837
Rotary press
1843
Hectograph
1860
Offset printing
1875
Hot metal typesetting
1884
Mimeograph
1885
Daisy wheel printing
1889
Photostat and rectigraph
1907
Screen printing
1911
Spirit duplicator
1923
Dot matrix printing
1925
Xerography
1938
Spark printing
1940
Phototypesetting
1949
Inkjet printing
1950
Dye-sublimation
1957
Laser printing
1969
Thermal printing
c. 1972
Solid ink printing
1972
Thermal-transfer printing
1981
3D printing
1986
Digital printing
1991
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Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly passing a laser beam back and forth over a negatively charged cylinder called a "drum" to define a differentially charged image.[1] The drum then selectively collects electrically charged powdered ink (toner), and transfers the image to paper, which is then heated to permanently fuse the text, imagery, or both, to the paper. As with digital photocopiers, laser printers employ a xerographic printing process. Laser printing differs from traditional xerography as implemented in analog photocopiers in that in the latter, the image is formed by reflecting light off an existing document onto the exposed drum.
The laser printer was invented at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Laser printers were introduced for the office and then home markets in subsequent years by IBM, Canon, Xerox, Apple, Hewlett-Packard and many others. Over the decades, quality and speed have increased as prices have decreased, and the once cutting-edge printing devices are now ubiquitous.
^"Laser Printer - Definition of laser printer by Merriam-Webster". merriam-webster.com.
Laserprinting is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly...
for many 3D printing projects. These techniques include selective laser sintering, with both metals and polymers and direct metal laser sintering. Selective...
large-format and/or high-volume laser or inkjet printers. Digital printing has a higher cost per page than more traditional offset printing methods, but this price...
most purposes when dot-based printers, in particular lasers and ink jet printer, capable of printing any characters, graphics, typefaces or fonts, rather...
photocopy machines, laser printers, and digital presses which are slowly replacing many traditional offset presses in the printing industry for shorter...
known as direct metal laser sintering (DMLS), the ASTM standard term is powder bed fusion (PBF). PBF is a rapid prototyping, 3D printing, or additive manufacturing...
cost of speed. Dot matrix printing is typically distinguished from non-impact methods, such as inkjet, thermal, or laserprinting, which also use a bitmap...
simulating offset printing, to floor tiles. Inkjet is also used to apply mailing addresses to direct mail pieces Laserprinting (toner printing) mainly used...
By 2019, laser printers outsold inkjet printers by nearly a 2:1 ratio, 9.6% vs 5.1% of all computer peripherals. The concept of inkjet printing originated...
of SLS printing due to lack of commercially available laser systems with Class-1 safety enclosures means that the home market for SLS printing is not...
thermal transfer printing, print and apply machines, digital printing presses and laserprinting products. At present, they are operating in over 120 countries...
machines used thermal printing technology. Toward the beginning of the 21st century, however, thermal wax transfer, laser, and inkjet printing technology largely...
term laser marking is also used as a generic term covering a broad spectrum of surfacing techniques including printing, hot-branding and laser bonding...
(Laser Engineered Net Shaping), is one example of the Powder Fed - Directed Energy Deposition process for 3D printing or restoring metal parts. Laser-based...
working by 1971. Laserprinting eventually became a multibillion-dollar business for Xerox. The first commercial implementation of a laser printer was the...
Macintosh computers, the LaserWriter was a key component at the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution. Laserprinting traces its history to efforts...
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the...
Pad printing (also called tampography) is a printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object (e.g., a ceramic pottery). This is accomplished...
laser is mainly used in making holograms. In laserprinting He-Ne laser is used as a source for writing on the photosensitive material. He-Ne lasers were...
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring...
write') is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone)...
The laserprinting of single nanoparticles is a method of applying optical forces that direct single nanoparticles to targeted substrate regions. Van der...
dominated the laserprinting sector during this time in part due to their reliability, relatively affordable pricing, and the spread of LaserJet 4 models...
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by...
LaserJet as a brand name identifies the line of laser printers marketed by the American computer company Hewlett-Packard (HP). The HP LaserJet was the...
additive manufacturing or 3D printing processes such as selective laser sintering and selective laser melting, laser metal deposition, and non-contact...