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It depends on what you pay for. High speed color banner printers that use inkjet are faster that color lasers. That is partly because there are few large banner
by aurizon 11y ago
It depends on what you pay for. High speed color banner printers that use inkjet are faster that color lasers. That is partly because there are few large banner laser printers.
Lasers are faster because they compute the exposure pattern, then expose the drum in a written band that then goes past the toner brush(a magnetic low force brush) where toner is attracted to the pattern defined by the laser or LED beams = 1 color, squashed, into color 2, color 3 and black. Once computed you can print a page every 2-3 seconds until toner or paper gone.
Inkjets lay down a colored stripe, advance the paper, lay down another, advance. They can be made faster and bidirectional. You could make a banner printer that was cut down to 8.5 x 11 that would print a page a second
- thanhhuy123 11y agoCan you explain in more detail how the banner printer can be made that fast? Do you think one reason is because in laser printer, the moving part is the laser beam which can move very fast, while in inkjet it is the much bulkier printhead? If this is the case then there would be the physical upper limit on how fast can a printhead be moved, vs a laser beam?