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Why is dpi so important in getting
a good print?
Using original Canon toner
cartridge on a Canon Laser Printer is extremely important. Why?
Where can I get the latest
printer drivers?
Why do LBP-800 and LBP-810
come with only 512KB memory while other laser printers of the same range come with
more memory?
Why are prints from the Canon
colour laser printer not glossy?
Why is dpi so important in getting
a good print?
DPI (dots per inch) is the measurement of how many
dots are printed in an inch. Therefore, if more dots are packed into one inch, the
image or text will be sharper. This however can be enhanced by certain technology
that comes with the laser printer. In the case of Canon, our Laser Printers come
with the AIR (Automatic Image Refinement) technology. With this technology, some
Canon Laser Printers can print up 600 x 2400dpi or 1200 x 1200dpi.
Using original Canon toner cartridge
on a Canon Laser Printer is extremely important. Why?
Canon brand toner cartridge are manufactured to best
suit the usage for Canon Laser Printers. Often we are tempted to use either compatible,
refilled or re-manufactured toner cartridge, which we should avoid doing. It is like
buying a compatible spare part for a car instead of buying original parts. It may
somewhat perform the same function like the original. Yet it would not last as long
and it could affect the performance of the vehicle itself.
In addition, we need to look at how such companies
manufacture products. In the case of remanufacturing cartridges, what actually happened
is this. The manufacturer would first purchase empty toner cartridges from end-users.
They would then strip the toner cartridge to its bare minimum. They would then reassemble
them after some amount of cleaning. The area of specific concern here is the toner
drum. There is a life-span to this item and no amount of cleaning would extend its
life-span.
The other type of toner cartridges available is the
refill. The manufacturer would just punch a hole at the top of the cartridge to fill
it with toner. Nothing is actually changed in this type of toner cartridge.
Therefore it is not surprising that such toners would
not give quality prints. Some would even leak toner and even damage the laser printer
itself.
The Canon brand toner cartridge is manufactured to
optimally suit the Canon laser printers. Even the toner composition itself is designed
for the specific laser printer. You may like to know that Canon has a Research &
Development team set up just for the toner itself. We have another separate team
just to conduct research on the drum only.
Where can I get the latest printer
drivers?
Printer drivers are available either in the CD-ROM
or diskettes that comes together with the laser printer. Else, the latest printer
drivers could be downloaded from http://www.canon-asia.com
If all else fails, please contact print&scan@canon.com.my
Why do LBP-800 and LBP-810 come with
only 512KB memory while other laser printers of the same range come with more memory?
Quite unlike ink jet or dot-matrix printers, laser
printers are page printers. While ink jet or dot-matrix prints on a line by line
basis (thus called the line printer), the laser printer needs to get all the information
for the page before printing it out (thus called a page printer).
As a result, the amount of memory or RAM in the laser
printer becomes very important. This memory would be used to store the information
stated above. When memory in the laser printer is insufficient, then the laser printer
cold not perform the printing job. And customers must add more of this memory or
RAM if their printing job is rather complicated.
LBP-800 and LBP-810 on the other hand are rather unique
in that they only require 512KB of memory to do their printing job. The key to why
this is possible is the CAPT (Canon Advanced Printing Technology). With this technology,
LBP-800 and LBP-810 actually use the processing power and memory of the computer
sending the printing job.
As mentioned earlier, in order for customers to print
slightly complicated jobs (such as text and pictures), they would need to upgrade/increase
the memory in their laser printers. Often such upgrades could be expensive. For example,
an 8MB upgrade for a laser printer could be in excess of RM400.
However, in order to upgrade/increase the memory/RAM
for LBP-800 and LBP-810, all you need to do is to purchase more RAM for your computer.
This would automatically increase the memory for Canon LBP-800 and LBP-810. And computer
memory is relatively cheaper, at RM300 for a 64MB of RAM. Moreover, you would use
more of the computer rather than the laser printer.
That is why 512KB of memory is sufficient for LBP-800
and LBP-810.
Why are prints from the Canon colour
laser printer not glossy?
The prints from the previous generation of Canon colour
laser are glossy. This was achieved by adding silicon oil right at the end of the
printing process. However, the main objective of the silicon oil is not to produce
a glossy print. The silicon oil functions to coat the printer drum so that it does
not overheat. The glossy prints were merely a by-product of this process.
In addition, customers need to purchase silicon oil
as a consumable and the process of refilling this silicon oil can be messy. As a
result Canon decided to explore into the possibility to eliminate/change this process.
Thus a new toner technology was born. Within each
of these spherical toner particles, there is a microscopic wax core. When the drum
crushes these tiny toner particles, these wax cores are released to coat the laser
printer drum. Therefore, there is no residue oil to make the prints glossy and oily.
Due to this new toner technology, customers could
print double-sided on the Canon colour laser printer.
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