Club Printer

Not strictly speaking a colour laser printer, OKI’s latest workgroup C3300n colour printer has a 1,200 x 600dpi resolution and, like many of its siblings, uses LED technology to print. This achieves much the same effect as a laser printer only with generally faster print times and, it has to be said, lower print quality.

The major difference between laser and LED printers lies in the first stage of printing. Instead of using a laser beam sweeping the page, the LED process uses an array containing thousands of light-emitting diodes to sweep an entire line at the same time. This leads to fast print times and more reliability, as LED printers tend to have fewer mechanical parts. (more…)