Solid-Ink Printers

It uses ink in a waxy solid form than the liquid form, which avoids problems like spillage. These printers print a single line at a time, and these printers are best suitable for graphic companies that need actual color at a price lower than a color laser printer.

Thermal Printers

Thermal printers are of two varieties.

i. Direct Thermal printer

The direct Thermal printer comes with a heated printhead to burn dots on the unique heat-sensitive paper surface. It bears similarities to older fax machines.

ii. Thermal wax-transfer printer

Thermal wax-transfer printers use a heat-sensitive-ribbon in place of heat-sensitive paper. The thermal printhead liquifies wax-based ink from the ribbon onto the paper.

Inkjet Printers

Inkjet printers place minute droplets of ink onto paper to create an image. Consisting of a reservoir of aqueous ink, a pump, and an ink nozzle to accomplish this. These dots are microscopic and can have diverse colors combined to produce photo-quality images. They work by shooting ink onto paper.

Laser printers

These are the fastest and most popular printers at present. They produce highly high-quality images – compatible with photo quality.

Scanner: It is an input device that converts the document into digital format.

People use scanners to store their pictures/documents on their computers.

The main two variations of scanners are flatbed and portable scanners. A flatbed scanner is the most common one and is designed to scan flat objects. A portable scanner is great for travel purposes.

Optical scanners arrest the image of a usually flat item and transfer it to a computer, much like flatbed scanners.

There are even apps on our mobile that helps to scan documents on the go. However, the problem with this is privacy issues, and the crisis of having your phone or any other device stolen that has scanned any personal information.

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Printer Ink:

The base component of any printer ink is usually oil, either linseed oil, soybean oil, or petroleum distillate. Carbon black and varnish are mixed to make primary black ink. Colored ink is prepared from dyes/compounds like peacock blue, yellow lake, diarylide orange, and phthalocyanine green.

A cartridge or inkjet cartridge is a part of an inkjet printer that contains the ink which gets deposited onto paper during printing. Every ink cartridge contains one or more ink reservoirs.