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Hello - I have a laser printer (Samsung CLP-300 to be exact). If I leave it on, I notice it will emit fumes, sort of annoying in my room. I wanted to know if it is okay to turn it on when I need to use it, and then turn it off if I don't plan to use it for several hours. I'm not going to be turning it off then on again in 5 minutes. It should save electricity in the long-run, too. Does it use up toner each time I turn it on (like an inkjet printer)?
Thanks,
- Eli
It shouldn't hurt to turn it off. It is exactly like a normal copy machine and we have turned them off for years.
Dunno why people keep stuff turned on all the time. They must have too much money to pay electricity bills. Save the planet, reduce, reuse, recycle would be my guess.
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Hey jefro - sounds good. I think it is a matter of inconvenience to turn it off, or people forget. Or, like you said, they have too much money and it doesn't matter to them. I had a big CRT monitor some years ago, the power switch was all the way in the back, and it was easier for me to leave it on standby. LCD screens now have the switch right on the front, so it's easy to just turn it off.
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To answer the original question, a laser printer does not use any toner when it is turned on. The only time it uses toner is when there is something to print.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/l...
Stuart
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My Laser Printer has a sleep mode that you can set. Even in the sleep mode it draws 35 watts. Can't recall the wattage when awake but it is something like 250 watts. Does pay to shut off. Mine takes 90 seconds to warm up from the sleep mode. I don't think it would take any longer if shutdown. It does use some consumables when started though. It goes thru a cycle just like when it is preparing to print.
Read the manual to see the pros and cons.
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I just don't see how a laser uses any toner on startup.
It might be a situation where the heat element that might lessen the life very slightly but the normal reasons you replace a print engine is either the gears break or the drum gets bad. A mechanical issue not related to energy or startup. The start cycle is a clear print path. I guess that could lessen the life of the printer one piece of paper worth.My guess is you are way ahead if you not only turn it off but you place it on a power strip. They really do save power. Many products use power even when off.
You don't want to breath anything that smells either.
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I guess it could use up some toner, maybe by initializing the drum and prepping it to print, but that should be insignificant enough in the long run.
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It may well initialize the drum on startup but that will be only to give the drum a positive electrostatic charge. When printing the laser beam draws an negative electrostatic charge pattern on the drum according to the print information that comes from the print data sent to the printer. Only then is the toner applied to the drum. It sticks to the negative charge and is rejected by a positive charge, thereby forming an image to be printed.
With a positive electrostatic charge no toner will stick to the drum so no toner gets used until the laser beam has done its job. The laser can't do anything until it gets information from the computer. Therefore no toner gets used until there is actually something to print.
Its all there in the link I posted.
Stuart
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