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Originally posted by Clover
Question about the laser printers. Do they actually burn the image on the paper?
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If you mean is there a laser that shoots the words onto the paper, then no. It's more like one of those iron-ons that you can put on your shirt. It's a more detailed process than this, but basically (from the way I understand it anyway, I could be wrong) the laser part is involved in the photosensitive drum. It "paints" (for lack of a better word) the printout on the photosensitive drum and where the words were put, it is somehow magnetized so that the toner sticks to only the parts where the words are. The paper runs across this and sorta temporarily sticks the words on the paper. It goes through a really hot roller called a fuser and it basically "irons" it to the paper. If you have a fuser go bad, when the paper comes out you can just brush the toner right back off the paper. It won't stick. That happened to my old laser awhile back. That's why I said it "temporarily" sticks it to the paper, cuz without the fuser to heat it up and make it stick, the toner won't stay on the page.