What Exactly Is A Laser Toner?

The Toner Expert

The term Laser Toner is in fact a combination of terms. Toner is the powder form of carbon or polymer used in most laser printers and photocopiers, toner particles are melted by the printers fuser to bind into the paper material that forms the printed images, documents, text and other types of files that you print onto the paper. Earlier when it was developed, it was in a form of carbon powder, then through research and advancement they improve its previous form into a melted carbon and mixed with polymer. This improvement aims to achieve a better quality of printouts.

The type of polymer may vary depending on the manufacturer, but these carbon or polymers may either be, styrene acrylate copolymer, styrene butadiene polymer, or polyester resin.  Each manufacturer have their own specific formulation of laser toners, the structure and composition of their formulas may be different from the size of each particle and the melting point of the toner powder.

The size of a single toner particle may have the averaged of 14-16 micrometers. Since they wanted to improve the image or the print quality, the earlier size of toner particles were reduce to about 8-10 micrometers thus creating a 600 DPI (dots per inch) resolution which is way better. The smaller the toner particles size the more accurate and crisp images can be produce.

In earlier times, laser printer denotes the use of laser, when actually not all laser printer uses laser and instead some uses LED to transfer the toner into the page. Before, toner powder comes from a bottle that printer users need to pour the toners into a reservoir in the machine. Nowadays, modern laser printers feed directly from a sealed toner cartridge. And also, these modern equipments now uses the standard Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black (CMYK) colored toners, unlike before that only black color of toners were available. 

Generally,  laser toners are manufactured inside a container called laser toner cartridges, but at present most laser printer models have included a drum unit aside from having a toner cartridge. In short, every time the printer user needs to replace empty cartridges, the user should also need to replace the drum unit. Though the drum unit may be replace at some point having the reason that it's already worn out, replacing it along with the cartridges may seem to be costly. If you want to have some alternatives or cost-effective solution to cut down your printer expense you may choose to purchase remanufactured toner cartridges, less expensive printer cartridges that won't compromise your printing quality.

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