There are two common types of laser printers. Those that have special paper that react to heat, such as receipt printers, would fit the description.
The other laser printers.. Hm, I don't think your description is accurate either. It's more that the laser electrically charges ink particles so that they jump on to a separate roller that gets rolled on to the paper.
I'm no expert though.
I am not aware of any receipt printers using lasers - thermal printers have an array of resistors that get hot when necessary. I know how a laser printer works and it is hard to explain in 12 or so words. Inkjets are way easier, you can just say "squirt squirt oops". Anyway...
Yeah, it's fun but the temperature needs to be correct. With rising temperature, the paper goes black, light gray, brown and then glowing orange.
It's an accurate description of laser printers. The "powder" in the description are small plastic flakes (toner), and the paper is baked so that powder melts into it.
Receipt printers have no additional consumables beyond the paper. The heat itself is all the paper needs.
I thought this was a D&D alignment chart at first... And yes, Inkjet printers are chaotic evil.
yes because unfortunately selling printer ink at higher prices than human blood is somehow completely legal
Inkjet: uses yellow ink to dye paper.
But what if it's just black text?
Inkjet: USES YELLOW INK TO DYE PAPER
The EFF were tracking which printers print the invisible tracking dots, but they gave up because practically all colour inkjet and laser printers do it now. https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
... server/enterprise level HDDs are loud af, I swear some brands are dedicated to it.
That leaves us only with the tiny WD Red Plus (but not Red Pro), above 20TB afaik only Exos (from X21 onwards) doesn't alert the neighbours.
But in (second half-ish?) of 90s HDDs differed a lot in terms of loudness. I was one of those nerds with custom (fully home made) water loop just to achieve some level of quietness.
Which one is it? The one I have still has an overflow/nozzle cleaning sponge that bricks the printer when it's full
So you need to hack it and violate warranty to make it work? And this is just fine? On a product you paid for?
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I love my inkjet. It's so nice to be able to do my own high quality prints for the wall and for friends.