What Are The Different Types Of Printer, What Are Their Function And Usage?

Printers are basically a peripheral that is used to produce a hard copy of documents stored in an electronic form, on the computer. Printers are local peripherals and are attached to the computer via a printer cable.

There are many types of computers based on differences in technology. Printers can be categorized as follows:

- Toner -based printers: Are actually Laser printers that use Xerographic technology.
- Liquid Inkjet printers: These printers operate by propelling small sized droplets of liquid ink on the page.
- Solid Inkjet printers: These printers use a thermal transfer technology.
- Dye-sublimation printers: These kinds of printers use heat to transfer dye to another medium such as page or plastic card.
- Inkless printers: These printers do not use ink for printing. They use the thermal and UV technology.
- Daisy wheel printers: These printers function on the principle of typewriters.
- Dot-Matrix printers: In this kind of printer, small dots of ink are used to form a larger image.
- Line Printers: This kind of printer prints an entire line of text at one time.
- Pen-based Plotters: It used the vector graphics technology and operates by moving a pen on surface of paper.

You can get more information on all these types of printers along with their pictures at this en.wikipedia.org