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Speed
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Purpose
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Disadvantage
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Examples
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Laser
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Faster
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Prints
large quantities
|
Printer
and cartridges inside printer are very expensive
|
Hewlett
Packard, Canon
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LED/LCD
|
Faster
|
Fewer
moving parts & less expensive than laser ones.
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Quality
is not up to the extent of high quality laser printing
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Lexmark,
OKI, Fujitsu Siemens
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Inkjet
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Slow
|
Portable
and prints small quantities
|
Sometimes
ink can be seen and ink is also expensive.
|
Hewlett
Packard, Canon, Epson
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Dot Matrix
|
Slower
|
Lowest
printing cost per page
|
Noisy,
low speed, low resolution, low quality
|
Panasonic,
Epson, Genicom
|
|
Solid
Ink
|
Fast
|
Prints
large volumes & reliable than laser ones.
|
Printing
quality less than inkjet
|
Xerox
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