What is the difference between an office jet printer and a laser jet printer?

Answer 1

An Inkjet printer uses a printhead to "shoot" ink on to a page. An electronic device actually boils the ink, making it expand and shoot out. You can get some more information at the related link below.

Most laser printers use toner, which is a powder made of plastic and a little metal. A laser writes a picture onto a drum: whereever the laser writes attracts toner. Then the toner is transferred to the paper and melted in to the paper. You can look up more of this process at the other related link below.

The bottom line is inkjets have a better print quality, although most are slower and can't be repaired if they break. Laser printers are made to print thousands, if not millions of pages in their lifetime. Laser printers are more expensive than inkjets but you will spend more on ink cartridges than toner cartridges over time, depending on how much you print.

Answer 2

A laser printer is different from an inkjet printer. While the former uses a toner with electrically charged powder, the latter implements the use of ink that it sprays in a series of dots using a head to make a print on paper.

Answer 3

impact printer uses a little hammer that hit a wet ribbon to make a mark on paper

laser printer uses a laser to remove the charge from a glass wheel so it wont pick up a particle of toner to put on the paper to fuse with heat

ink jet uses an electric arc passing thru ink to vaporize a bit of ink propelling it to the paper

Answer 4

They are virtually the same.

'Office' implies it is large enough for use in an office so some laser jet printers may be a bit smaller.

Answer 5

Laser jet printers are faster than laser printers.

Answer 6

laser is a faster priter and it is more expesive than inkjet.

Answer 7

Laser: Toner powder, rotating drum.

Inkjet: Liquid Ink, moving print-head.