Polaroid P-500 DIGITAL PHOTO PRINTER SMARTMEDIA OR CF USES 500 FILM

What You Should Know about the P-500 DIGITAL PHOTO PRINTER SMARTMEDIA OR CF USES 500 FILM

This is a color laser

Color laser printers like this one are becoming the standard choice for businesses. In general, they offer the fastest way to print color output--if not always the best way: they manage pie charts, logos, and simple graphics just fine, but they tend to struggle at producing smooth, natural-looking photos.

Color Lasers print by using a laser and rotating mirrors to beam an image indirectly onto a photoconducting drum; attracting toner to that image; and then melting the toner at high temperature to transfer the image to paper. Each of the four colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) has its own drum. A multi-pass color laser runs the paper through each color in turn, which makes the printer slower. A single-pass color laser runs the paper through all four colors in succession, which tends to make the printer faster.