Using a Laser Printer

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Now, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about laser printers. This is just a standard home or small office laser printer that pretty much anybody can go ahead and get. Now, there's several components on it. Of course, I have my paper feed back here. I have two different trays actually for, if I wanted two different types of paper. So I could have my standard paper here, and maybe envelopes, or maybe even a different color paper up here, or a different thickness, such as some type of cardboard or whatnot. So, what we have, we have a little lift back here, which can hold the paper up of course, too. And we have a lift up here that will hold the paper, when it actually comes out after being printed. So I'm going to go ahead and close that, though. In the event of a paper jam there's several things you can do. On this particular unit which most of them have, they'll have a tray on the bottom, which will allow you to pull paper out if something does get stuck. So, I'll go ahead and close that back up. So now remember, a laser printer actually does use a type of laser to burn the image, whatever it is, usually text, onto the paper. it is very, very hot and it is not like your ink jet cartridges. So anything that says ink jet only, as far as papers or transparencies, things like that, you don't want to use in a laser printer. I found this out the hard way the other day trying to use a t-shirt transfer paper inside a laser printer and I got the glue everywhere. So that sucked, and I had to go ahead and clean it. So just use regular copy paper to do anything you're going to be printing with your laser printer. So, let me show you, in this unit I can go ahead and pull up the entire front and then what you have..laser printers actually have a thing called the toner. So, this one has a grip, you go ahead and yank it out. Pull up. And this is actually what burns the image onto your paper. So, this has the ink basically that will be in here, to put the image, whatever it is, if it's a picture or text, onto your paper. So, in the event you notice that your toner isn't printing correctly, and you have some letters missing, or it just doesn't look as clear as possible, go ahead and give your toner a shake, before going ahead and replacing, um, go ahead and, excuse me, trying to buy a new one. These are kind of expensive, but they do last a long time. So, instead of buying black ink all the time for your ink jet printer, go ahead and get yourself a laser printer. So, once you're done, whether it's a new one or your replacement, after you've shaken it. You go ahead and lock it back into place. So, I have some fans here that keep everything cool. It actually says that it goes up to 356 degrees, so that's pretty hot. So, once you're done, you go ahead and close the door. It'll do it's little run through. Make sure everything's right. The same way your ink jet printer would cycle through, and make sure your ink jet cartridges have been placed properly. So, then there's a bunch of indicator lights on the side too, if we need to load paper, if there's a jam, if there's an error, or whatnot. So, it's pretty self-explanatory. You go ahead and turn it on, plug it into your computer, and go ahead and print. So and when you replace, just a little point, when you're replacing your toner, go ahead and take it to a proper place. The toners are pretty toxic, so when you buy a new toner, they usually have a return shipping box on the inside that will allow you to send it back to the manufacturer. And, sometimes they'll give you a credit. Even if they don't, it helps the environment, so go ahead, print out what you got to print, and enjoy your laser printer.

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