White toner printing is one of the latest forms of heat transfer. It’s quickly becoming popular due to it’s relatively low costs, prep time, versatility, and great results. It’s comparable to sublimation or DTG printing. White toner printing uses a laser printer loaded with white toner instead of black toner. You print on a semi…
When it comes to printer security, sometimes it can get a low priority. Printers used to, well, just print. Now, printers can scan a document to cloud storage, print by voice commands, or let the manufacturer know when you’re low on ink. All these conveniences come with a hidden price. Security is sacrificed for ease…
Printers seem like a mysterious magical box. You stick paper in and out comes text or images from your screen. While all printers serve the same purpose, there are a myriad of different types and terminology. The term printer covers a lot of ground. It can mean anything from a printing press to a 3D…
The term plotter was popularized from the original pen plotters. A pen is placed in a carriage unit which is then moved along the horizontal and vertical axis with motors. By plotting points along a X and Y axis a drawing was achieved. Much like an Etch-A-Sketch. Early plotters were used for engineering drawings, topographic…
I often get service calls for a printer that won’t print. In my experience a printer that won’t print can be as simple as it lost a WiFi connection, or as complicated as it doesn’t have the correct user rights. When your print jobs fail or simply disappear it can be frustrating. The most common…
If your printer is not printing as fast as it should there are several possible reasons for it and steps to resolve it. I have dealt with slow printing issues since Windows 95 and Mac OS 7 were popular. Even today I address Android, MS Azure, and Windows 11 printing slowly. In my experience the…
When a HP printer says offline, you are not going to be able to print. Which is frustrating. Printers don’t usually go offline for no reason. There are simple and complex reasons printers go offline in my experience. Simple reasons I’ve seen are: Printer or computer needs rebooted USB/Network connection loose or unplugged Printer needs…
According to the official HP service manual a 49 error is a critical firmware error. Basically, the 49 service error happens when a print job is unable to be processed by the printer. In my experience this error is rarely resolved by a firmware update. In most cases there is a conflict between the printer…
A document stuck in the print queue seems to happen at the worst time. Most of the time deleting the job and waiting a few minutes will do the trick. Yet every once and a while the job just won’t go away and a reboot seems inevitable. Before rebooting, give our instructions below a try….
Laser printer toner is the stuff used by a laser printer to create images on paper. Its function is the same as ink inside an inkjet printer: to produce an image or text on paper. However, ink and toner can’t be swapped since one is a liquid and the other is a dry powder. If…
Simply put, the developer unit manages the toner so a printer can use it. The developer unit is a reservoir of toner which is made available to the drum. It’s function is to develop the invisible latent image on the drum with toner. Developer units are necessary for every laser printer. Color laser printers have…
Simply put, a fuser is the unit which is responsible for fixing toner into the paper. It has two primary rollers which apply heat and pressure as the paper passes in between them. Unfused images I’ve handled merely wipe off the paper. The temperature inside a fuser unit ranges between 180° to 210° Celsius (356°-410°…
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