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The Office Printer Reinvented: Laser-like Text, Vibrant Color, Durability
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The economics of laser printers will be
challenged by the emerging generation of
inkjet printers that combine laser printer duty
cycles and text quality with inkjet color and
efficiencies at ever higher speeds.
Let’s take a moment to consider how Pre-
cisionCore specifically stacks up against
the current standard for office printing, the
laser printer. Laser printing (also known as
dry toner electrophotography or dry toner
EP) has been the norm for office printing
since the 1980s. Dry toner EP uses electrical
charges to pick up powdered toner which is
then heat-fused to the surface of the paper.
It has long set the standard for text quality
as dry toner EP has good optical density
and edge sharpness, these perhaps being
the most significant components of how text
quality is perceived. This text appearance
is achieved largely because the electrical
charges that hold toner particles tend to
cause two closely spaced toner spots to
merge. This smooths the edges and causes
the dots making up a text letter to clump
together.
Epson inkjet printers, on the other hand,
can place variably sized dots of a range of
colors, enabling it to produce rich, vibrant
colors in output such as photos. Sky colors
and skin tones with fine gradations can also
be reproduced. However, when printing
small characters or lines on normal paper,
ink bleed and insufficient dot placement
accuracy historically meant the edges of
the text appeared more ragged than those
printed with a laser engine, so for many
years inkjet was thought to not be suitable
for business documents. Now, that gap is
disappearing.
Below is a comparison of the output of a
PrecisionCore powered desktop printer with
that of an Epson laser printer. As Precision-
Core printheads are able to place almost
perfectly round ink drops more accurately
than ever before, the difference with laser-
printed, text-heavy business documents is
practically indistinguishable to the naked
eye. At the same time, Epson prints give you
the “jump off the page” business black and
color pigment ink.
In addition to quality, business documents
printed with PrecisionCore and Epson’s
business inks deliver durability that exceeds
that of laser printed pages, all without spe-
cial paper formulations. Spill a little water,
use your highlighter, and then give it a close
inspection. When highlighting a document
printed on a laser printer, the ink from the
pen will be repelled, but not with Epson pig-
ment inks for business, and the characters
will not become blurred either. Also, as with
laser printers, the text will not disappear
when the document is rubbed or abraded.
In the office, documents are treated in many
ways; written on, folded, and pencils marks
are erased. Do all the things that you would
do with a laser printed page to a Precision-
Core printed page and you’ll find that the
laser printer no longer has any durability
advantage.
Epson’s no-heat technology also saves
power by eliminating the fuser required for
toner-based printing technologies, result-
ing in up to 70% less energy consumption
5.
Laser printers generally also have a larger
consumables footprint, requiring periodic
replacement of the drum, transfer belt, and
fuser in many cases. Add in the faster start-
up time yielded because a PrecisionCore
powered printer does not need to warm up
like a laser printer does when it powers on
or awakens from sleep and it is only natural
that the time for inkjet to take its place in the
laser-dominated office has arrived.
PrecisionCore powered
inkjet print sample (12 point)
Epson laser printer print
sample (12 point)
PrecisionCore white paper
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