Why do my photos look so much worse when I print them out on the laser printer at work compared to when I print them out on my inkjet printer at home?
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Although laser technology is improving, an inkjet printer will generally produce better photographs than a laser printer. In a laser printer, the laser is used to create a pattern of electrical charges on a rotating drum. This pattern then attracts toner (dry ink) to the drum, which is rolled over the paper. When printing a color photograph, the drum must be passed over the paper four times, laying down a different color of toner each time. These overlapping layers of black, yellow, magenta and cyan create all of the colors we see in the photograph. However, small errors that occur when lining up the different layers of toner can lead to the loss of quality you are experiencing.
These alignment errors are not such a problem with inkjet printers because the ink is sprayed onto the page by hundreds of tiny jets during a single pass, resulting in a more careful alignment of colors and more gradual blending between colors.
These alignment errors are not such a problem with inkjet printers because the ink is sprayed onto the page by hundreds of tiny jets during a single pass, resulting in a more careful alignment of colors and more gradual blending between colors.
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