What are two categories of laser printers?

Answer 1

Printers can be categorized in a number of ways.

There are inkjet and laser printers. Inkjet printers use ink cartridges while laser printers use laser toner cartridges.

Also, printers can be classified as colored or black.

Answer 2

Ones that work and ones that don't? There are a lot more than two categories of printers. Some of the ones I can think of just off the top of my head include...

receipt printers

band printers

daisywheel printers

dot matrix impact printers

pen plotters

thermal printers

desktop inkjet printers

laser printers

wide-format inkjet printers

grand-format inkjet printers

electrostatic printers

photographic printers

dye sublimation printers

And then there's the ink...aqueous, eco-solvent, mild solvent, aggressive solvent, oil-former...

I believe that if the question is "What are the two major categories of printers?" then there are just that, two categories of printers. While most of the above may be true, they all fall under the same "TWO" categories. Perhaps Jmowreader, you need to read the question a little closer. Not all that you find on the internet is true unless it has a viable source. My source for the following is the college textbook titled A+ Guide to Hardware: Managing, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting FOURTH EDITION by Jean Andrews ISBN-13: 978-0-619-21762-4

You can visit the website listed in the related links and search the book if you do not believe it to be a reliable source.

The two categories are the following:

1. Impact Printers (e.g. Dot matrix printers)
2. Nonimpact Printers (e.g. laser, inkjet, solid ink, dye sublimation, and thermal printers)

The "viable source" I used was all the printers I've worked with.

There should actually be FIVE categories of printers, if you want to try to make neat little groups out of unbelievably disparate kinds of printers.

Impact, Printer Marking (something like a dot matrix printer with a ribbon in it)

Impact, Media Marking (an impact printer where the media changes colors in response to being struck--the machines big companies use to print paychecks are this class)

Non-impact, Printer Marking (inkjet and laser printers fall into this class)

Non-impact, Media Marking (thermal printers, and anything that exposes photoreceptive media like photo paper or film)

Plotters (a device that places a pen or a blade on the surface of the media, then drags the tool to cut or draw)

Answer 3

inkjet and laserjet

impact & non-impact

Answer 4

The mean catrgories of printing are impact and non-impact

Answer 5

Laser printer -uses toner and Ink-jet printers

Answer 6

Impact printer and Non impact printer

JWH

Answer 7

Lazerjet and black and white.
Impact printer and non-impact printer.

Answer 8

Impact printers

Non-Impact printers