Digital printing is one of many developments that formed the backbone of the modern age. By rapidly facilitating the conversion between digital and physical images, printing accelerated the process of information transfer all over the world. Two forms of digital printing are still in common use today: ink jet printing and laser printing. These printing processes occupy different niches in the digital printing world.
Printing Process
In laser printing, a laser selectively reverses the charge of an electrically charged drum in the same pattern as the image to be printed. The printer then releases toner, a powder that contains its own electric charge that sticks to the drum. An oppositely-charged sheet of paper is sent over the drum, picking up the toner, and the two fuses together under high heat. By contrast, an ink jet printer dispenses tiny, diffused droplets of ink through special nozzles, which are deposited line by line onto the paper.
