Which of the following printer can be classified as a page-at-a-time printer?
Laser printer can be classified as a page-at-a-time printer?
Most printers we looked at of both types post a printing rate of between 15 and 30 pages per minute, but inkjet printers go much slower than their quoted rate when printing color items. If you need to print colored documents quickly, but can't justify an expensive laser, a lower-end laser may work for you.
A page printer is a computer printer which processes and prints a whole page at a time, as opposed to printers which print one line or character at a time such as line printers and dot-matrix printers.
Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly passing a laser beam back and forth over a negatively charged cylinder called a "drum" to define a differentially charged image. The drum then selectively collects electrically charged powdered ink (toner), and transfers the image to paper, which is then heated in order to permanently fuse the text, imagery, or both. As with digital photocopiers, laser printers employ a xerographic printing process. However, laser printing differs from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning of the medium across the printer's photoreceptor. This enables laser printing to copy images more quickly than most photocopiers.