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Printer Toner - Origin Of The Color Powder
If you compare a printer to a body, toner cartridge would probably be the heart of this mechanical organism. This heart supplies the printer with an essential substance toner powder. Just like blood required for a living organism to exist and act, toner is required for printing devices to perform their role in the world -- create impressions.
In a wider sense, toner is not only blood for printers, it plays an important role in the life of human beings. You cant imagine a business office without a printer, or copier of fax in it. And, despite the ongoing development of electronic documentation, the number of hard copies, whether its text document, graphics or color images, is growing every year.
So did you ever happen to wonder what this powder, which a professional life is virtually impossible without, is and how it is made?
Simply put, toner is a mix of resins, plastic, waxes and some other additional chemical reagents merged together and then smashed into tiny little bits, into dust. Originally and up to date, the toner was made using a melt mixing or hot compounding process. The named ingredients are blended while molten to produce a homogenous paste. Afterwards, the paste is cooled, and there are few ways of cooling it. The mix is either slabbed out by extruding it onto a cooling belt, or it is pelletized and then the pellets are cooled.
In the next stage, the toner bulks are to be ground to powder usually by air-swept hammer mills or jet mills. The result of this grinding is toner particles of different sizes. The particles that are too big or too small are then sifted out several times. The sorted out particles are mixed with additives to enhance the properties of the toner. This is a traditional way of producing pulverized toner, and the resulting toner particle size averages about 8 micron. Have no idea how big or small that is? If you take a look at a hair, 8 microns would be 1/3 of its width.
On a related not, the size of toner particle coincides with printing resolution. Thus, 8 micron particles correspond to 600 dpi (dots per inch) resolution, while 12 microns particles (these were at the dawn of wide laser printer use) were only able to provide 300 dots per inch.
So, the traditional way of making toner is grinding. What is the modern way?
The production approach that came to shift the grinding came from the field of chemistry. This way of making toner involves growing the particles out of molecules in an emulsion made from all the ingredients dissolved or suspended in a liquid.
The chemical toner manufacturing initially started in the 1990s and recently has begun to become more and more widespread. However, the chemical toner is still less common compared to its traditional counterpart.
Chemically made toner particles are also less expensive to produce, and because they are literally grown in a controlled process, the particles have a lot more consistent structure and size --more round than the random-sized, crystal-like shards typical of pulverized toner.
The round, smooth surface of particles help them flow better in the powder state. Moreover, such particles hold a more uniform electrostatic charge in the laser printer, which significantly affect the printing quality.
The new approach of making toner has a number of benefits over conventional toner. The particles can be made smaller -- down to 4 microns -- half the size of the smallest particle that can be made by the conventional grinding.
Worth mentioning is the fact that the smaller toner particles size provides a higher page yield. It is estimated that, compared to 8 micron particles, about 40% less 4 micron toner is needed to produce the same print.
The chemical toner requires up to 40 per cent less energy to manufacturer and reduces the carbon footprint. Apart from production, the chemical toner is energy-saving in use as it allows the printer fuser to heat and fuse at a lower temperature speeding overall printing process and first page printed time.
About the Author
Stan Retner is a printer supplies specialist and the marketing director at ink and toner selling site *Toner Cartridge Depot*
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