laser printer

American  

noun

1. Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.

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laser printer British  

noun

1. a quiet high-quality computer printer that uses a laser beam shining on a photoconductive drum to produce characters, which are then transferred to paper

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laser printer Cultural  

1. A type of printer that provides high-resolution images. A laser produces an image on a rotating drum, which is then rolled through a type of ink that transfers to the places illuminated by the laser.

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Other Word Forms

• laser printing noun

Example Sentences

In the early 1970s, he worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, which had invented the personal computer and also a laser printer.

From Reuters • Mar. 22, 2023

Mr. Runbeck’s field technicians soon determined that the problem lay in the insufficient temperature of the fuser, the component of a laser printer that heats the toner, causing it to adhere to paper.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2022

“It was the first laser printer, really, that was on the open market, and it had the capacity to show photographs photocopied in gray scale,” he remembered.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 3, 2018

Inkjet printers tend to run low on ink more frequently than a laser printer uses up a toner cartridge.

From The Verge • Nov. 25, 2015

My pay was better, my hours would be more reasonable, and there were other people designated to keep paper in the copier and fix the laser printer when it broke.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama