Whether you're on the hunt for one of the best photo printers, or your office tech has left you curious, you might find yourself asking 'how does a laser printer work?' Printing with lasers may sound like a work of science fiction, but laser printing technology has been around since 1969, when research began by Gary Starkweather at Xerox, leading to the world’s first commercial laser printer - the Xerox 9700 launching in 1977. Since their inception, they’ve become a firm favorite for office environments due to their inherently super crisp text, speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Laser printers use toner cylinders, which can be a single black toner roller on entry-level black and white laser printers, while more expensive full color laser models come with additional rollers, usually four in total, for black, cyan, yellow, and magenta colors.
