Laser printer

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A digital printer that uses a dry toner process. It's a fast printer but inkjet printers are ahead on price/performance for colour printing.

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A computer peripheral that’s used to output prints from digital images or data files. Most inexpensive printers are inkjet models that squirt out tiny jets of ink onto paper to make up the photograph. More expensive models tend to be either laser printer or dye-sublimation printers.