Multiple choice

Which of the following printer can be classified as a page-at-a-time printer?

  1. Laser printer

  2. Dot-matrix-printer

  3. Thermal Printer

  4. Inkjet Printer
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Explanation

Laser printers are page printers because they use a photoreceptor drum that receives an entire page's image as a single laser-scanned electrostatic charge pattern, then transfers toner to paper in one complete page pass. Dot matrix, thermal, and inkjet printers are all character/line-at-a-time printers that build images incrementally.

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