One of the differences between inkjet printers and laser printers has to do with handling of the data to be printed.
An inkjet printer gets its commands for each printed line, one at a time, from Windows. It prints the line and gets the data for the next line. Sometimes they buffer a little of the data so there’s no hesitation, but Windows is talking to the printer thoughout the whole print job.
That’s not the way that laser printers work. A laser printer has to get all the data for a whole page before it starts to print that page.
What happens if there is so much content, shapes or colors, that the printer’s memory can’t receive the entire page? You can’t print it. You have to add memory.
That happened to me one time with my LaserJet 1200, so I had upgraded its memory a long time ago.
Now, with the new printer, I needed to think about that possibility. Surely it wouldn’t be a problem, but it shouldn’t have ever been a problem with the LaserJet 1200, either.
HP offered extra memory for the Color LaserJet CP1518ni printer, which has an easily accessible side door so the user can pop extra memory into it.
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