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Digital Printing Hannah Kelly

Digital printing refers to several technologies used to print digital images and text without using traditional printing plates. These technologies include photocopiers, laser printers, inkjet printers, and desktop publishing. Photocopiers use xerography to make paper copies, laser printers use a laser beam to produce high quality text and graphics on plain paper, and inkjet printers create images by propelling droplets of ink onto paper. Desktop publishing combines page layout software with personal computers to create documents for both large and small scale publishing and output.

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Digital Printing Hannah Kelly

Digital printing refers to several technologies used to print digital images and text without using traditional printing plates. These technologies include photocopiers, laser printers, inkjet printers, and desktop publishing. Photocopiers use xerography to make paper copies, laser printers use a laser beam to produce high quality text and graphics on plain paper, and inkjet printers create images by propelling droplets of ink onto paper. Desktop publishing combines page layout software with personal computers to create documents for both large and small scale publishing and output.

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Digital Printing

Hannah Kelly
Photocopying
• A photocopier (also known as a copier or copy machine) is a machine
that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly
and cheaply. Most current photocopiers use a technology called
xerography, a dry process using heat. (Copiers can also use other output
technologies such as ink jet, but xerography is standard for office
copying.)Xerographic office photocopying was introduced by Xerox in
1959,[1] and it gradually replaced copies made by Verifax, Photostat,
carbon paper, mimeograph machines, and other duplicating machines.
The prevalence of its use is one of the factors that prevented the
development of the paperless office heralded early in the digital
revolution citation needed].Photocopying is widely used in business,
education, and government. There have been many predictions that
photocopiers will eventually become obsolete as information workers
continue to increase their digital document creation and distribution,
and rely less on distributing actual pieces of paper.
Laser Printing
• A laser printer is a common type of computer
printer that rapidly produces high quality
text and graphics on plain paper. As with
digital photocopiers and multifunction
printers (MFPs), laser printers employ a
xerographic printing process but differ from
analog photocopiers in that the image is
produced by the direct scanning of a laser
beam across the printer's photoreceptor
Inkjet
• An inkjet printer is a type of computer printer that creates a
digital image by propelling variably-sized droplets of liquid
material (ink) onto a page. Inkjet printers are the most common
type of printer[1] and ranges from small inexpensive consumer
models to very large and expensive professional machines.[2]The
concept of inkjet printing dates back to the 19th century and the
technology was first developed in the early 1950s. Starting in the
late 1970s inkjet printers that could reproduce digital images
generated by computers were developed, mainly by Epson,
Hewlett-Packard and Canon. In the worldwide consumer market,
four manufacturers account for the majority of inkjet printer
sales: Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Epson, and Lexmark[citation
needed].The emerging ink jet material deposition market also uses
ink jet technologies, typically piezoelectric crystals, to deposit
materials directly on substrates.
Desk Top Publishing
• Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a
personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout
software to create publication documents on a
computer for either large scale publishing or small
scale local multifunction peripheral output and
distribution.The term "desktop publishing" is
commonly used to describe page layout skills.
However, the skills and software are not limited to
paper and book publishing. The same skills and
software are often used to create graphics for point
of sale displays, promotional items, trade show
exhibits, retail package designs and outdoor signs.

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