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    Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly...
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    for many 3D printing projects. These techniques include selective laser sintering, with both metals and polymers and direct metal laser sintering. Selective...
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    large-format and/or high-volume laser or inkjet printers. Digital printing has a higher cost per page than more traditional offset printing methods, but this price...
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    photocopy machines, laser printers, and digital presses which are slowly replacing many traditional offset presses in the printing industry for shorter...
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    cost of speed. Dot matrix printing is typically distinguished from non-impact methods, such as inkjet, thermal, or laser printing, which also use a bitmap...
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    By 2019, laser printers outsold inkjet printers by nearly a 2:1 ratio, 9.6% vs 5.1% of all computer peripherals. The concept of inkjet printing originated...
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    laser printer in 1984, with the first HP LaserJet, and the addition of PostScript in next year's Apple LaserWriter set off a revolution in printing known...
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    known as direct metal laser sintering (DMLS), the ASTM standard term is powder bed fusion (PBF). PBF is a rapid prototyping, 3D printing, or additive manufacturing...
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    most purposes when dot-based printers, in particular lasers and ink jet printer, capable of printing any characters, graphics, typefaces or fonts, rather...
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    fiber-optic communications, barcode readers, laser pointers, CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc reading/recording, laser printing, laser scanning and light beam illumination...
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    simulating offset printing, to floor tiles. Inkjet is also used to apply mailing addresses to direct mail pieces Laser printing (toner printing) mainly used...
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    (Laser Engineered Net Shaping), is one example of the Powder Fed - Directed Energy Deposition process for 3D printing or restoring metal parts. Laser-based...
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    Macintosh computers, the LaserWriter was a key component at the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution. Laser printing traces its history to efforts...
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    of SLS printing due to lack of commercially available laser systems with Class-1 safety enclosures means that the home market for SLS printing is not...
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  • thermal transfer printing, print and apply machines, digital printing presses and laser printing products. At present, they are operating in over 120 countries...
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    machines used thermal printing technology. Toward the beginning of the 21st century, however, thermal wax transfer, laser, and inkjet printing technology largely...
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    term laser marking is also used as a generic term covering a broad spectrum of surfacing techniques including printing, hot-branding and laser bonding...
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    Pad printing (also called tampography) is a printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object (e.g., a ceramic pottery). This is accomplished...
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    Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the...
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    color laser printers. Currently, this type of printer is rarely used for full-page printing, but is now employed for industrial label printing due to...
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    working by 1971. Laser printing eventually became a multibillion-dollar business for Xerox. The first commercial implementation of a laser printer was the...
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    laser is mainly used in making holograms. In laser printing He-Ne laser is used as a source for writing on the photosensitive material. He-Ne lasers were...
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    A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring...
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    Dye-sublimation printing (or dye-sub printing) is a term that covers several distinct digital computer printing techniques that involve using heat to...
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  • The laser printing of single nanoparticles is a method of applying optical forces that direct single nanoparticles to targeted substrate regions. Van der...
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    write') is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone)...
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    Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in...
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    LaserJet as a brand name identifies the line of laser printers marketed by the American computer company Hewlett-Packard (HP). The HP LaserJet was the...
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    dominated the laser printing sector during this time in part due to their reliability, relatively affordable pricing, and the spread of LaserJet 4 models...
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    Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by...
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