Jumat, 26 November 2010

CANON PIXMA iX5000 (A3)


Specifications

The PIXMA iX5000 lets you enjoy high-quality photo and document printing up to A3+. As part of the PIXMA range, the iX5000 is built with FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) technology which ejects consistent 2 picolitre ink droplets with remarkable accuracy for smoother, sharper and more detailed images. The iX5000 is the perfect solution for the home or business who want to print large format documents, graphics and photos at fast speeds.

* Increase productivity with fast A4 document printing at up to 25 ppm black and 17 ppm colour
* Print beautiful photos at fast speeds, with approx. 166 seconds for an A3+ (11"x14" image on 13"x19" photo paper)
* 2 picolitre FINE print-head technology and maximum 4800 x 1200 dpi for high-quality photos and documents
* Print borderless photos up to A3+
* Features 4 individual ink tanks, saving you money as you only need to replace the colour that runs out
* ChromaLife 100 ink for beautiful, long-lasting photos





Platform Business InkJet
Printing Method InkJet
Max. Media Sizes A3+
Max. Resolution 4800
Effective Print Resolution 4800 x 1200 dpi
Print Speed Black 25 ppm
Print Speed Color 17 ppm
PC Connectivity USB
OS Compatibility Windows XP/2000/Me/98, Mac OS X v 10.2.8 or later
Network Supports Not Available
Media Type Plain Paper: 64-105g/m², Canon specialty paper (max paper weight): approx 273g/m² (Photo Paper Plus Glossy)
Compatible Media Sizes A3+, A3, A5, B5, A4, B4, Letter, Legal, Envelopes (DL, Com. #10), 6"x4", 5"x7", Credit Card (54mm x 86mm)
Photo Printing Available

* Photo Print Speed: 11"x 14" image on PP-101 in standard mode: approx. 166 secs
* Borderless 6" x 4" photo: CLI-8C - approx. 380, CLI-8M - approx. 250, CLI-8Y - approx. 250
* Camera Direct: Direct Print Port (PictBridge)
* Bundled Software: (Windows) Easy-PhotoPrint, Easy-WebPrint, PhotoRecord, (Macintosh) Easy-PhotoPrint


Duplex Printing Not Available
Power Consumption Approx. 17W (printing), Approx. 0.8W (standby)
Dimension (WHD) 601 x 317.6 x 193.2 mm
Weight Approx. 9.3kg
Package Contents PIXMA iX5000 Ink Jet printer, Setup Software & User's Guide CD-ROM, Printed Manual, 4 individual ink tanks (PGI-5Bk, CLI-8C, CLI-8M, CLI-8Y), Print-head, 12 months warranty card, Power cord (content may vary)

Printer Canon Pixma MP258 (Print, Scan, Copy)


Pengganti Canon MP145

Maximum Resolution (dpi)


4800(horizontal)*1 x 1200(vertical)

Print head / Ink

Type


FINE Cartridge

Smallest Ink droplet size


2pl

Ink


PG-830 (Pigment Black), CL-831 (Dye C/M/Y)
Optional ink cartridge: PG-40 (Pigment Black), CL-41 (Dye C/M/Y)

Ink Capacity Standard (approx. figure)

Color Document­


PG-830: 219 sheets / CL-831: 207 sheets
Optional ink cartridge: PG-40: 329 sheets / CL-41:312 sheets

Photo (4" x 6")


PG-830: 1785 sheets / CL-831: 85 sheets
Optional ink cartridge: PG-40: 2760 sheets / CL-41:126 sheets

Print Speed

Bk text (Plain paper/New pattern)


20 ppm

Color (plain paper/New pattern)


15 ppm

Photo(8"x10" image)


PP-101/Standard : approx. : 120 sec

Photo(4"x6")


PP-101/Standard/Borderess : approx. 60 sec

Printable Area

Borderless Printing


Top/Bottom/Right/Left margin: 0 mm (Supported Paper Size: A4/Letter/8"x10"/5"x7"/4"x6"/Credit Card)

Paper Size (Cut paper)


A4, Letter, Legal, A5, B5, Envelopes(DL, COM10), 4"x6", 4"x8", 5"x7", 8"x10", Credit Card

Paper Handling(ASF)

Plain paper


Approx. 100(10mm)

High Resolution Paper


(HR-101N) A4=80

Photo Paper Pro


(PR-101) A4 =10, 4"x6"=20

Photo Paper Plus Glossy


(PP-101) A4 =10, 4"x6"=20

Photo Paper Plus Semi-gloss


(SG-101) A4 =10, 4"x6"=20

Glossy Photo Paper


(GP-401) A4 =10, 4"x6"/Credit Card =20

Photo Paper Plus Double Sided (Manual*)


(PP-101D) A4/5"x7"=1

Photo Sticker


(PS-101) = 1

T-Shirt Transfer


(TR-301) = 1

Envelope


10

Scan

Resolution


600 x 1,200 dpi (9,600 dpi enhanced)

Scanning Element


Contact Image Sensor (CIS)

Scanning Speed


B & W: 5.7 sec (A4 / 300dpi)
Color: 16.8 sec (A4 / 300dpi)

Compatibility


TWAIN, WIA (for WindowsR XP only)

Copy

Speed


B & W: 19 cpm (A4 Fast Mode)
Color: 15 cpm (A4 Fast Mode)

Multiple Copy


1 - 9 pages

General

Interface


USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

Compatible OS (Printer Driver)


WindowsR Vista/XP/2000/, Mac OS X v.10.2.8 – 10.4

Dimensions


443 x 381 x 181mm(W x D x H)

Weight


6.3 kg

Power Source


AC100-240V 50/60Hz

Power Consumption


Standby: 0.9W
Off: 0.5W
Copying: 13W

Acoustic Noise


Approx. 44.5 dB(A) (when printing in the highest print quality mode on Photo Paper Pro)
Approx. 48 dB(A) (when copying in the highest print quality mode on Photo Paper Pro)

Source : http://tumiskangkung.com/printer-c-2/printer-canon-pixma-mp198-print-scan-copy-p-24

Canon IP2770 ( pengganti IP1980 )

Canon IP2770 ( pengganti IP1980 )


PIXMA iP1980

Maximum Resolution (dpi)

4800(horizontal)*1 x 1200(vertical)

Print head / Ink

Smallest Ink droplet size

2pl

Ink

PG-830 (Pigment Black), CL-831 (Dye C/M/Y)
Optional ink cartridge: PG-40 (Pigment Black), CL-41 (Dye C/M/Y)

Ink Capacity Standard(approx. figure)

Color Document *2

PG-830: 215 sheets / CL-831: 206 sheets

Optional ink cartridge: PG-40: 327 sheets / CL-41:303 sheets

Photo (4" x 6") *3

PG-830: 1215 sheets / CL-831: 79 sheets

Optional ink cartridge: PG-40: 2110 sheets / CL-41:112 sheets

Print Speed

B/W document (Plain paper/New pattern)

21 ppm (A4 fast mode)

Color (plain paper/New pattern)

17 ppm (A4 fast mode)

Photo(A4, 8"x10" image)

Standard : approx. : 120 sec

Photo(4"x6", borderless)

Standard : approx. 55 sec

Printable Area

Borderless Printing*4

A4/Letter/8"x10"/5"x7"/4"x6"

Paper Size (Cut paper)

A4, Letter, Legal, A5, B5, Envelopes(DL, COM10), 4"x6", 4"x8", 5"x7", 8"x10"

Paper Handling

Rear tray (Plain paper)

Approx. 100

Interface

USB

Compatible OS

Windows2000 SP4/XP SP2,VISTA
Mac OS X 10.3.9-10.5

Dimensions

442 x 237 x 152mm (W x D x H)

Weight

3.3 kg

Power Source

AC100-240V 50/60Hz

Power Consumption

Standby: 1.0W
Off: 0.6W
Copying: 8W

*1: Ink droplets can be placed with a pitch of 1/4800 inch at minimum.

*2: Declared yield value in accordance with ISO/IEC 24711. Values obtained by continuous printing.

*3: When printing Canon standard patterns continuously with the default settings of testing paper using Windows Vista printer driver in borderless printing mode and Windows Vista Home Premium Photo Gallery.
Declared yield value determined based on Canon standard method referring to ISO/IEC 24711.

*4: Supported paper types for borderless printing:Photo Paper Pro, Photo Paper Plus Glossy, Photo Paper Plus Semi-gloss, Glossy Photo Paper, Matte Photo Paper, Photo Paper Plus Double-sided

All data is based on Canon's standard testing methods. Subject to change without notice

Canon IP1980 Canon IP1980 Canon IP1980.

Source : http://tumiskangkung.com/printer-c-2/canon-ip2770-pengganti-ip1980-p-26

Epson LX 300+II


Description

Dot Matrix, 240 X 216 dpi

Black and White Horizontal Resolution 240 dpi
Black and White Print Speed 264 cps
Black and White Vertical Resolution 216 dpi
Interface Type Parallel - 36 pin Centronics (IEEE 1284B), Serial - 25 pin D-shell (EIA 232C)
Paper Handling Support Envelopes, Labels, Form (Multi-Part), Paper (Continuous Feed)
Printer Type Dot Matrix
Dimensions (HxWxD) 5.4 in x 10.8 in x 15.3 in
Weight 8.8 lbs Epson LX 300+II , Epson LX 300+II , Epson LX 300+II
Warranty 1 Year Limited Warrant

Epson T13 (Pengganti epson T11)


Epson T13 (Pengganti epson T11)

Description
Features

Affordable INKdividual™ Cartridges
-Cost-efficient INKdividual™ cartridges
-Reduce ink wastage and maximise savings
-Replace only the ink cartridge that runs out
-Eliminates wastage of throwing away an integrated cartridge with remaining ink in other colours

Greater Efficiency with Cartridge Flexibility
-Choose from two different capacities of ink sets based on usage patterns
-Achieve cost and printing efficiency with cartridge flexibility

New Improved EPSON DURABrite™ Ultra Ink
-Ideal all-purpose ink for everyday printing
-Smudge, water and fade-resistant qualities ensures prints stay vibrant for years to come
-Laser quality black text on plain paper

Amazing Print Speed & Quality
-Maximise productivity with an excellent print speed of up to 22 pages per minute
-Images are portrayed superbly up to 5760 x 1440 dpi
-Advanced Micro Piezo print head with VSDT technology

For Your Creative Pleasure
-One-stop photo software solution with EPSON Creativity Suite
-Neatly manage all your digital images with EPSON File Manager
-EPSON PhotoEnhance automatically adjusts images to give you amazing true-to-life colour photos
-Achieve brilliant prints in just 3 steps with EPSON Easy Photo Print
-Print entire web pages without the need for manual realignment with EPSON Web-to-Page
Technical Specifications:
Photo Quality
Ink System 4-colour
Ink Type Durabrite Ultra Ink
Max. Print Resolution 5760x1440 dpi (with VSDT)
Min. Ink Droplet Size 4pl
Image Optimisation P.I.M. III / Exif Print
Print Durability
Water Resistance Yes
Lightfastness Yes
Direct Print Function from Digital Camera
PC-less function No
Photo Index Form Printing No
Connectivity - Card Slot No
Connectivity - USB Cable Yes
Connectivity - Wireless No
File Compatibility N/A
Memory Card Backup No
CD/DVD Printing
Print on Printable CD/DVD No
Print Speed
Print Speed 22ppm/13 ppm (BK/Colour)
Paper Handling
Max. Paper Size A4
BorderFree Yes
Max. Paper Capacity 80
Roll Paper No
Tractor Feed No
Ink Cartridges
INKdividual Yes
Ink Cartridge Model 73N and 91N series
Connectivity and Compatibility
Interface USB 2.0
OS Support Win 98SE/ME/2000/XP/XP-64 Edition/Vista Mac OS 10.2.8 or later with USB

Source : http://tumiskangkung.com/printer-c-2/epson-t11-pengganti-c90-p-17?zenid=bc3e5af57ce32d44d2e8963190a10ffa

Printer Command Language

Printer Command Language

Printer Command Language, more commonly referred to as PCL, is a page description language (PDL) developed by Hewlett-Packard as a printer protocol and has become a de facto industry standard. Originally developed for early inkjet printers in 1984, PCL has been released in varying levels for thermal, matrix printer, and page printers. HP-GL and PJL are supported by later versions of PCL.

PCL is occasionally and incorrectly said to be an abbreviation for Printer Control Language which actually is another term for Page description language.

PCL levels 1 through 5 overview

PCL levels 1 through 5e/5c are command based languages using control sequences that are processed and interpreted in the order they are received. At a consumer level, PCL data streams are generated by a print driver. PCL output can also be easily generated by custom applications.

* PCL 1 was introduced in 1984 on the HP ThinkJet 2225 and provides basic text and graphics printing with a maximum resolution of 150 dpi (dots per inch).

* PCL 1+ was released with the HP QuietJet 2227.

* PCL 2 added Electronic Data Processing/Transaction functionality.

* PCL 3 was introduced in 1984 with the original HP LaserJet[1]. This added support for bitmap fonts and increased the maximum resolution to 300 dpi. Other products with PCL 3 support were the HP DeskJet ink jet printer, HP 2932 series matrix printers and HP RuggedWriter 2235 matrix printers. PCL 3 is still in use on several impact printers which replaced the obsoleted HP models.

* PCL 3+ (mono) and PCL 3c+ (color) are used on later HP DeskJet and HP PhotoSmart products.

* PCL 3GUI is used in the HP DesignJet and some DeskJet series printers. It uses a compressed raster format that is not compatible with standard PCL 3.

* PCL 4 was introduced on the HP LaserJet II [2] in 1985, adding macros, larger bitmapped fonts and graphics. PCL 4 is still popular for many applications.

* PCL 5 was released on the HP LaserJet III [3] in March 1990, adding Intellifont font scaling (developed by Compugraphic, now part of Agfa), outline fonts and HP-GL/2 (vector) graphics.

* PCL 5e (PCL 5 enhanced) was released on the HP LaserJet 4 [4] in October 1992 and added bi-directional communication between the printer and the PC and Windows fonts.

* PCL 5c introduced color support on the HP PaintJet 300XL and HP Color LaserJet [5] in 1992.

[edit] PCL 6 overview

PCL 6 was introduced around 1995 with HP LaserJet 4000 series printers [6], and consists of:

* PCL 6 Enhanced: An object-oriented PDL optimized for printing from GUI interfaces such as Windows and compressed to optimize throughput. Formerly known as PCL XL.
* PCL 6 Standard: Equivalent to PCL 5e or PCL 5c, intended to provide backward compatibility.
* Font synthesis: Provides scalable fonts, font management and storage of forms and fonts.

PCL 6 Enhanced features a new modular architecture that can be easily modified for future HP printers; faster return to application; faster printing of complex graphics; more efficient data streams for reduced network traffic; better WYSIWYG printing; improved print quality; and complete backward compatibility. In early implementations, HP did not market PCL 6 well, thus causing quite a bit of confusion in terminology. PCL XL was renamed to PCL 6 Enhanced, but many third party products still use the older term. Some products may claim to be PCL 6 compliant, but may not include the PCL 5 backward compatibility. PCL 6 Enhanced is primarily generated by the printer drivers under Windows and CUPS. Due to its structure and compression methodology, it is rarely used by custom applications.

PCL 6 Enhanced is a stack-based, object-oriented protocol, similar to PostScript. However, it is restricted to binary encoding as opposed to PostScript, which can be sent either as binary code or as plain text. The plain-text commands and code examples shown in the PCL programming documentation are meant to be compiled with a utility like HP's JetASM before being sent to a printer. Perhaps because PCL 6 is designed for small size, operators are not as flexible or orthogonal as in PostScript.

PCL 6 Enhanced is designed to match the drawing model of Windows GDI. In this way, the Windows printer driver simply passes through GDI commands with very little modification, leading to faster return-to-application times. Microsoft has extended this concept with its next-generation XPS format, and printer implementations of XPS are being developed. This is not a new idea: it is comparable with Display Postscript and Apple's Quartz, and is in contrast to "GDI Printers" where a compressed bitmap is sent to the printer.
[edit] PCL 6 class revisions
[edit] Class 1.1

* Draw tools: Support drawing lines, arcs/ellipses/chords, (rounded) rectangles, polygons, Bezier paths, clipped paths, raster images, scanlines, raster operations.
* Color handling: Support 1/4/8-bit palettes, RGB/grey color space. Support custom halftone patterns (max 256 patterns).
* Compression: Supports RLE.
* Units of measurement: Inch, millimetre, tenth of millimetre.
* Paper handling: Support custom or predefined sets of paper types, including common Letter, Legal, A4, etc. Can choose paper from manual feed, trays, cassettes. Paper can be duplexed horizontally or vertically. Paper can be oriented in portrait, landscape, or 180 degree rotation of the former two.
* Font: Supports bitmap or TrueType fonts, 8 or 16-bit code points. Choosing character set uses different symbol set code from PCL 5. When bitmap font is used, many scaling commands are unavailable. When TrueType font is used, variable length descriptors, continuation blocks are not supported. Outline font can be rotated, scaled, or sheared.

[edit] Class 2.0

* Compression: Added a proprietary JPEG compression called JetReady.
* Paper handling: Media can redirected to different output bins (up to 256). Added A6 and Japanese B6 preset media sizes. Added Third cassette preset, 248 external tray media sources.
* Font: Text can be written vertically.

[edit] Class 2.1

* Color handling: Added Color matching feature.
* Compression: Added Delta Row.
* Paper handling: Orientation, media size are optional when declaring a new page. Added B5, JIS 8K, JIS 16K, JIS Exec paper types.

[edit] Class 3.0

* Color handling: Allow using different halftone settings for vector or raster graphics, text. Supports adaptive halftoning.
* Protocol: Supports PCL passthrough, allowing PCL 5 features to be used by PCL 6 streams. However, some PCL 6 states are not preserved when using this feature.
* Font: Supports PCL fonts.
* Viewer/Converter: PCLReader (freeware) can view, convert or print any level of PCL 6 (including JetReady) to any printer.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_Command_Language

Laser Printer



A laser printer is a common type of computer printer that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics on plain paper. As with digital photocopiers and multifunction printers (MFPs), laser printers employ a xerographic printing process but differ from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning of a laser beam across the printer's photoreceptor.

Overview

A laser beam projects an image of the page to be printed onto an electrically charged rotating drum coated with selenium or, more common in modern printers, organic photoconductors. Photoconductivity removes charge from the areas exposed to light. Dry ink (toner) particles are then electrostatically picked up by the drum's charged areas. The drum then prints the image onto paper by direct contact and heat, which fuses the ink to the paper.

Unlike impact printers, laser printer speed can vary widely, and depends on many factors, including the graphic intensity of the job being processed. The fastest models can print over 200 monochrome pages per minute (12,000 pages per hour). The fastest colour laser printers can print over 100 pages per minute (6000 pages per hour). Very high-speed laser printers are used for mass mailings of personalized documents, such as credit card or utility bills, and are competing with lithography in some commercial applications. .[1]

The cost of this technology depends on a combination of factors, including the cost of paper, toner, and infrequent drum replacement, as well as the replacement of other consumables such as the fuser assembly and transfer assembly. Often printers with soft plastic drums can have a very high cost of ownership that does not become apparent until the drum requires replacement.

A duplexing printer (one that prints on both sides of the paper) can halve paper costs and reduce filing volumes. Formerly only available on high-end printers, duplexers are now common on mid-range office printers, though not all printers can accommodate a duplexing unit. Duplexing can also give a slower page-printing speed, because of the longer paper path.

In comparison with the laser printer, most inkjet printers and dot-matrix printers simply take an incoming stream of data and directly imprint it in a slow lurching process that may include pauses as the printer waits for more data. A laser printer is unable to work this way because such a large amount of data needs to output to the printing device in a rapid, continuous process. The printer cannot stop the mechanism precisely enough to wait until more data arrives, without creating a visible gap or misalignment of the dots on the printed page.
[edit] History
Gary Starkweather in 2009.

The laser printer was invented at Xerox in 1969 by researcher Gary Starkweather, who had an improved printer working by 1971[2] and incorporated into a fully functional networked printer system by about a year later.[3] The prototype was built by modifying an existing xerographic copier. Starkweather disabled the imaging system and created a spinning drum with 8 mirrored sides, with a laser focused on the drum. Light from the laser would bounce off the spinning drum, sweeping across the page as it traveled through the copier. The hardware was completed in just a week or two, but the computer interface and software took almost 3 months to complete.[citation needed]

The first commercial implementation of a laser printer was the IBM model 3800 in 1975, used for high-volume printing of documents such as invoices and mailing labels. It is often cited as "taking up a whole room," implying that it was a primitive version of the later familiar device used with a personal computer. While large, it was designed for an entirely different purpose. Many 3800s are still in use.[citation needed]

The first laser printer designed for use in an office setting was released with the Xerox Star 8010 in 1981. Although it was innovative, the Star was an expensive ($17,000) system that was purchased by only a relatively small number of businesses and institutions. After personal computers became more widespread, the first laser printer intended for a mass market was the HP LaserJet 8ppm, released in 1984, using a Canon engine controlled by HP software. The HP LaserJet printer was quickly followed by laser printers from Brother Industries, IBM, and others. First-generation machines had large photosensitive drums, of circumference greater than the paper length. Once faster-recovery coatings were developed, the drums could touch the paper multiple times in a pass, and could therefore be smaller in diameter.

Laser printers brought fast, high quality text printing with multiple fonts on a page to the business and consumer markets. No other commonly available printer could offer this combination of features.

As with most electronic devices, the cost of laser printers has fallen markedly over the years. In 1984, the HP LaserJet sold for $3500,[4] had trouble with even small, low resolution graphics, and weighed 71 pounds (32 kg). Low end monochrome laser printers often sell for less than $75 as of 2008. These printers tend to lack onboard processing and rely on the host computer to generate a raster image (see Winprinter), but still will outperform the LaserJet Classic in nearly all situations.
[edit] How it works
Main article: Xerography

There are typically seven steps involved in the laser printing process:
[edit] Raster image processing

Each horizontal strip of dots across the page is known as a raster line or scan line. Creating the image to be printed is done by a Raster Image Processor (RIP), typically built into the laser printer. The source material may be encoded in any number of special page description languages such as Adobe PostScript (PS), HP Printer Command Language (PCL), or Microsoft XML Page Specification (XPS), as well as unformatted text-only data. The RIP uses the page description language to generate a bitmap of the final page in the raster memory.

For fully graphical output using a page description language, a minimum of 1 megabyte of memory is needed to store an entire monochrome letter/A4 sized page of dots at 300 dpi. At 300 dpi, there are 90,000 dots per square inch (300 dots per linear inch). A typical 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper has 0.25-inch (6.4 mm) margins, reducing the printable area to 8.0 x 10.5 inches (270 mm), or 84 square inches. 84 sq/in x 90,000 dots per sq/in = 7,560,000 dots. Meanwhile 1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes, or 8,388,608 bits, which is just large enough to hold the entire page at 300 dpi, leaving about 100 kilobytes to spare for use by the raster image processor.

In a color printer, each of the four CYMK toner layers is stored as a separate bitmap, and all four layers are typically preprocessed before printing begins, so a minimum of 4 megabytes is needed for a full-color letter-size page at 300 dpi.

Memory requirements increase with the square of the dpi, so 600 dpi requires a minimum of 4 megabytes for monochrome, and 16 megabytes for colour at 600 dpi. Printers capable of tabloid and larger size may include memory expansion slots.
[edit] Charging
Applying a negative charge to the photosensitive drum

In older printers, a corona wire positioned parallel to the drum, or in more recent printers, a primary charge roller, projects an electrostatic charge onto the photoreceptor (otherwise named the photoconductor unit), a revolving photosensitive drum or belt, which is capable of holding an electrostatic charge on its surface while it is in the dark.

An AC bias is applied to the primary charge roller to remove any residual charges left by previous images. The roller will also apply a DC bias on the drum surface to ensure a uniform negative potential.

Numerous patents[specify] describe the photosensitive drum coating as a silicon sandwich with a photocharging layer, a charge leakage barrier layer, as well as a surface layer. One version[specify] uses amorphous silicon containing hydrogen as the light receiving layer, Boron nitride as a charge leakage barrier layer, as well as a surface layer of doped silicon, notably silicon with oxygen or nitrogen which at sufficient concentration resembles machining silicon nitride
[edit] Exposing
Laser neutralizing the negative charge on the photoreceptive drum to form the static electric image.

The laser is aimed at a rotating polygonal mirror, which directs the laser beam through a system of lenses and mirrors onto the photoreceptor. The cylinder continues to rotate during the sweep and the angle of sweep compensates for this motion. The stream of rasterized data held in memory turns the laser on and off to form the dots on the cylinder. Lasers are used because they generate a narrow beam over great distances. The laser beam neutralizes (or reverses) the charge on the black parts of the image, leaving a static electric negative image on the photoreceptor surface to lift the toner particles.

Some non-laser printers expose by an array of light emitting diodes spanning the width of the page, rather than by a laser.
[edit] Developing

The surface with the latent image is exposed to toner, fine particles of dry plastic powder mixed with carbon black or colouring agents. The charged toner particles are given a negative charge, and are electrostatically attracted to the photoreceptor's latent image, the areas touched by the laser. Because like charges repel, the negatively charged toner will not touch the drum where the negative charge remains.
[edit] Transferring

The photoreceptor is pressed or rolled over paper, transferring the image. Higher-end machines use a positively charged transfer roller on the back side of the paper to pull the toner from the photoreceptor to the paper.
[edit] Fusing
Melting toner onto paper using heat and pressure.

The paper passes through rollers in the fuser assembly where heat (up to 200 Celsius) and pressure bond the plastic powder to the paper.

One roller is usually a hollow tube (heat roller) and the other is a rubber backing roller (pressure roller). A radiant heat lamp is suspended in the center of the hollow tube, and its infrared energy uniformly heats the roller from the inside. For proper bonding of the toner, the fuser roller must be uniformly hot.

Some printers use a very thin flexible metal fuser roller, so there is less mass to be heated and the fuser can more quickly reach operating temperature. If paper moves through the fuser more slowly, there is more roller contact time for the toner to melt, and the fuser can operate at a lower temperature. Smaller, inexpensive laser printers typically print slowly, due to this energy-saving design, compared to large high speed printers where paper moves more rapidly through a high-temperature fuser with a very short contact time
[edit] Cleaning
Magnification of color laser printer output, showing individual toner particles comprising 4 dots of an image with a bluish background

When the print is complete, an electrically neutral soft plastic blade cleans any excess toner from the photoreceptor and deposits it into a waste reservoir, and a discharge lamp removes the remaining charge from the photoreceptor.

Toner may occasionally be left on the photoreceptor when unexpected events such as a paper jam occur. The toner is on the photoconductor ready to apply, but the operation failed before it could be applied. The toner must be wiped off and the process restarted.
[edit] Multiple steps occurring at once

Once the raster image generation is complete all steps of the printing process can occur one after the other in rapid succession. This permits the use of a very small and compact unit, where the photoreceptor is charged, rotates a few degrees and is scanned, rotates a few more degrees and is developed, and so forth. The entire process can be completed before the drum completes one revolution.

Different printers implement these steps in distinct ways. Some "laser" printers actually use a linear array of light-emitting diodes to "write" the light on the drum (see LED printer). The toner is based on either wax or plastic, so that when the paper passes through the fuser assembly, the particles of toner melt. The paper may or may not be oppositely charged. The fuser can be an infrared oven, a heated pressure roller, or (on some very fast, expensive printers) a xenon flash lamp. The Warm Up process that a laser printer goes through when power is initially applied to the printer consists mainly of heating the fuser element.
[edit] Color laser printers
Fuji Xerox color laser printer C1110B

Color laser printers use colored toner (dry ink), typically cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK).

While monochrome printers only use one laser scanner assembly, color printers often have two or more scanner assemblies.

Color printing adds complexity to the printing process because very slight misalignments known as registration errors can occur between printing each color, causing unintended color fringing, blurring, or light/dark streaking along the edges of colored regions. To permit a high registration accuracy, some color laser printers use a large rotating belt called a "transfer belt". The transfer belt passes in front of all the toner cartridges and each of the toner layers are precisely applied to the belt. The combined layers are then applied to the paper in a uniform single step.

Color printers usually have a higher "cents-per-page" production cost than monochrome printers.
[edit] DPI Resolution

* 1200 DPI printers are commonly available during 2008.
* 2400 DPI electrophotographic printing plate makers, essentially laser printers that print on plastic sheets, are also available.

[edit] Laser printer maintenance

Most consumer and small business laser printers use a toner cartridge that combines the photoreceptor (sometimes called "photo conductor unit" or "imaging drum") with the toner supply bin, the waste toner hopper, and various wiper blades. When the toner supply is consumed, replacing the toner cartridge automatically replaces the imaging drum, waste toner hopper, and wiper blades.

Some laser printers maintain a page count of the number of pages printed since last maintenance. On these models, a reminder message will appear informing the user it is nearing time to replace standard maintenance parts. On other models, no page count is kept or no reminder is displayed, so the user must keep track of pages printed manually or watch for warning signs like paper feed problems and print defects.

Manufacturers usually provide life expectancy charts for common printer parts and consumables. Manufacturers rate life expectancy for their printer parts in terms of "expected page-production life" rather than in units of time.

Consumables and maintenance parts for Business-class printers will generally be rated for a higher page-production expectancy than parts for personal printers. In particular, toner cartridges and fusers usually have a higher page production expectancy in business-class printers than personal-class printers. Colour laser printers can require more maintenance and parts replacement than monochrome laser printers since they contain more imaging components.

For rollers and assemblies involved in the paper pickup path and paper feed path, typical maintenance is to vacuum toner and dust from the mechanisms, and replace, clean, or restore the rubber paper-handling rollers. Most pickup, feed, and separation rollers have a rubber coating which eventually suffers wear and becomes covered with slippery paper dust. In cases where replacement rollers are discontinued or unavailable, rubber rollers can be cleaned safely with a damp lint-free rag. Commercial chemical solutions are also available which may help temporarily restore the traction of the rubber.

The fusing assembly (also called a "fuser") is generally considered a replaceable consumable part on laser printers. The fusing assembly is responsible for melting and bonding the toner to the paper. There are many possible defects for fusing assemblies: defects include worn plastic drive gears, electronic failure of heating components, torn fixing film sleeves, worn pressure rollers, toner buildup on heating rollers and pressure rollers, worn or scratched pressure rollers, and damaged paper sensors.

Some manufacturers offer preventative maintenance kits specific to each printer model; such kits generally include a fuser and may also include pickup rollers, feed rollers, transfer rollers, charge rollers, and separation pads.
[edit] Plane ban

After the October 2010 cargo planes bomb plot, in which cargo containing laser printers with toner cartridges filled with explosives were discovered on separate cargo planes, the U.S. prohibited passengers from carrying certain printer cartridges on flights.[5] The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said it would ban toner and ink cartridges weighing over 16 ounces (453 grams) from all passenger flights.[6][7] U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the ban would apply to both carry-on bags and checked bags on domestic and international flights in-bound to the U.S.[7] PC Magazine opined that the ban would not affect average travelers, whose toner cartridges are generally lighter, but would affect the importing of laser printer supplies, as many laser toner cartridges weigh well in excess of a pound.[7]
[edit] Steganographic anti-counterfeiting ("secret") marks
Illustration of small yellow dots on white paper, generated by a colour laser printer
Main article: Printer steganography

Many modern colour laser printers mark printouts by a nearly invisible dot raster, for the purpose of identification.

The dots are yellow and about 0.1 mm in size, with a raster of about 1 mm. This is purportedly the result of a deal between the U.S. government and printer manufacturers to help track counterfeiters.[8]

The dots encode data such as printing date, time, and printer serial number in binary-coded decimal on every sheet of paper printed, which allows pieces of paper to be traced by the manufacturer to identify the place of purchase, and sometimes the buyer.

Digital rights advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation are concerned about this erosion of the privacy and anonymity of those who print.[9]
[edit] Safety hazards, health risks, and precautions
[edit] Shock hazards

Although modern printers include many safety interlocks and protection circuits, it is possible for a high voltage or a residual voltage to be present on the various rollers, wires, and metal contacts inside a laser printer. Care should be taken to avoid unnecessary contact with these parts to reduce the potential for painful electrical shock.
[edit] Toner clean-up

Toner particles are designed to have electrostatic properties and can develop static-electric charges when they rub against other particles, objects, or the interiors of transport systems and vacuum hoses. Because of this and its small particle size, toner should not be vacuumed with a conventional home vacuum cleaner. Static discharge from charged toner particles can ignite dust in the vacuum cleaner bag or create a small explosion if sufficient toner is airborne. This may damage the vacuum cleaner or start a fire. In addition, toner particles are so fine that they are poorly filtered by conventional household vacuum cleaner filter bags and blow through the motor or back into the room.

Toner particles melt (or fuse) when warmed. Small toner spills can be wiped up with a cold, damp cloth.

If toner spills into the laser printer, a special type of vacuum cleaner with an electrically conductive hose and a high efficiency (HEPA) filter may be needed for effective cleaning. These are called ESD-safe (Electrostatic Discharge-safe) or toner vacuums. Similar HEPA-filter equipped vacuums should be used for clean-up of larger toner spills.

Toner is easily cleaned from most water-washable clothing. As toner is a wax or plastic powder with a low melting temperature, it must be kept cold during the cleaning process. Washing a toner stained garment in cold water is often successful. Even warm water is likely to result in permanent staining. The washing machine should be filled with cold water before adding the garment. Washing through two cycles improves the chances of success. The first may use hand wash dish detergent, with the second cycle using regular laundry detergent. Residual toner floating in the rinse water of the first cycle will remain in the garment and may cause a permanent graying. A clothes dryer or iron should not be used until it is certain that all the toner has been removed.
[edit] Ozone hazards

As a natural part of the printing process, the high voltages inside the printer can produce a corona discharge that generates a small amount of ionized oxygen and nitrogen, forming ozone and nitrogen oxides. In larger commercial printers and copiers, a carbon filter in the air exhaust stream breaks down these oxides to prevent pollution of the office environment.

However, some ozone escapes the filtering process in commercial printers, and ozone filters are not used in many smaller consumer printers. When a laser printer or copier is operated for a long period of time in a small, poorly ventilated space, these gases can build up to levels at which the odor of ozone or irritation may be noticed. A potential for creating a health hazard is theoretically possible in extreme cases. [10]
[edit] Respiratory health risks

According to a recent study conducted in Queensland, Australia, some printers emit sub-micrometre particles which some suspect may be associated with respiratory diseases.[11] Of 63 printers evaluated in the Queensland University of Technology study, 17 of the strongest emitters were made by Hewlett-Packard and one by Toshiba. The machine population studied, however, was only those machines already in place in the building and was thus biased toward specific manufacturers. The authors noted that particle emissions varied substantially even among the same model of machine. According to Professor Morawska of Queensland University, one printer emitted as many particles as a burning cigarette.[12]

"The health effects from inhaling ultrafine particles depend on particle composition, but the results can range from respiratory irritation to more severe illness such as cardiovascular problems or cancer." (Queensland University of Technology).[13]

A 2006 study in Japan found that laser printers increase concentrations of styrene, xylenes, and ozone, and that ink-jet printers emitted pentanol.[14]

Muhle et al. (1991) reported that the responses to chronically inhaled copying toner, a plastic dust pigmented with carbon black, titanium dioxide and silica were also similar qualitatively to titanium dioxide and diesel exhaust.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_printer

Printer Laser Multifunction Panasonic - KX-MB1900CX


Price Rp 1.900.000
Rp 1.575.000
Description
General Function
Type : Desktop
Printing : Laser
Standard Memory Capacity : 32 MB
PC Interface : Hi-Speed USB 2.0
Caller ID Ready : N/A
Dialling Mode : N/A
Paper Tray : 250 sheets
Automatic Document Feeder : N/A
Multi-Purpose Tray (Labels, Envelope, Coated/Thick Paper, Transparency etc) : Page by Page
Document Separator : N/A
Optional Paper Tray : N/A

Printer Function
PC Interface : Hi-Speed USB 2.0
Printing Speed : 24 ppm
Printing Resolution : 600 x 600 dpi
Compatible OS : Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7*/Mac OS X.10.3~10.5/Linux*1
Emulation : GDI
Paper Handling : A4/ Letter / legal*2 / B5(JIS) / B5(ISO) / 16K / 216mm X 330 mm*2 / 216mm X 340 mm*2

Copier Function
Resolution : 600 x 600 dpi
Multy-Copy : 99 Pages,Quick ID Copy,N-in-1,Separate N-in-1,Poster,Image Repeat
Zoom (Variable) : 25 % - 400 %

Scanner Function
Colour Scanning : Yes
Monochrome Scanning : Yes
Scanning Resolution : 600 x 600 dpi (ADF) / 600 x 1200 dpi ( flatbed) / 9600 x 9600 dpi (interpolated)

Fax Function
Not Available

Power Consumption
Standby : Approx. 5.5 W
Copy : Approx. 500 W
Maximum : Approx. 1,000 W ( When the fuser lamp turns on )
Power Source : 220 - 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
Dimensions (W x D x H) mm : 420 mm x 432 mm x 255 mm
Weight (Approx) : Approx. 11 kg

Network Compability (Option)
Not Available

Consumable
Toner Catrige : KX-FAT411E (2,000 Pages)
Drum Unit : KX-FAT412E (6,000 Pages)

Source : http://www.magacomputer.com/product/9/13/Printer-Laser-Multifunction-Panasonic-KX-MB1900CX/?o=default&gclid=CLvOs8m5v6UCFYIc6wodoVL_YA

print (PHP 4, PHP 5)

Print

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

print — Output a string
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Description
int print ( string $arg )

Outputs arg.

print() is not actually a real function (it is a language construct) so you are not required to use parentheses with its argument list.
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Parameters

arg

The input data.

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Return Values

Returns 1, always.
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Examples

Example #1 print() examples
print("Hello World");

print "print() also works without parentheses.";

print "This spans
multiple lines. The newlines will be
output as well";

print "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.";

print "escaping characters is done \"Like this\".";

// You can use variables inside of a print statement
$foo = "foobar";
$bar = "barbaz";

print "foo is $foo"; // foo is foobar

// You can also use arrays
$bar = array("value" => "foo");

print "this is {$bar['value']} !"; // this is foo !

// Using single quotes will print the variable name, not the value
print 'foo is $foo'; // foo is $foo

// If you are not using any other characters, you can just print variables
print $foo; // foobar

print <<This uses the "here document" syntax to output
multiple lines with $variable interpolation. Note
that the here document terminator must appear on a
line with just a semicolon no extra whitespace!
END;
?>
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Notes

Note: Because this is a language construct and not a function, it cannot be called using variable functions

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See Also

* echo() - Output one or more strings
* printf() - Output a formatted string
* flush() - Flush the output buffer
* Heredoc syntax



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print
sdaau
22-Dec-2009 10:28
Printing an empty string from PHP, as in

print "";

returns a single byte (content length=1) - the line-feed character '\n' (0a).

So if you truly want to return an empty string, you may want to use "flush()" instead - then headers without any Content-length will be returned.

Do note, however, that regardless of whether print or flush is used, accessing such a PHP output from AJAX (via .responseText) will always have a '\n' as a value for an "empty" string sent from PHP.
Chris Watson
01-Oct-2009 08:20
mvpetrovich of 2007 could just use single quotes as his string delimiters (see the example in the current documentation).
It's not ALWAYS appropriate, but generally it is best (the Zend Framework coding standards have a good take on this). It yields a number of interesting benefits:
1: Nobody will be tempted to write functions to replace backticks or other characters with double quotes. Such functions may cause a (negligible) loss of efficiency, and maybe other undesired effects.
2: You will be able to use double quotes without escaping. This is recommended (although not required) for HTML and XML attributes, as well as quoted text.
3: The script will hit the browser very slightly slightly faster since PHP doesn't have to scan through the string looking for variables, escaped characters, curly braces or other things.
4: Your code gets ten times easier to read. (as mvpetrovich pointed out)

If, in spite of these four excellent benefits, you really MUST still use double quotes to delimit boring old string constants (and seriously, why would you?), you could use the slightly less favourable single quotes as delimiters for most markup languages.
HTML served as HTML will even let you lay out unquoted attributes (yuck).

It should also be noted though that if you are just printing bare strings, you may as well shut off the php parser. The quickest way to send a string is to write it as plain text, OUTSIDE of the php tags. This will also make your code look excellent in a lot of syntax highlighters.

There are few disadvantages to doing this, if any. Output buffering still works. All your classes and objects and includes remain in place. Your script runs faster. World peace is obtained.
http://www.danielxmorris.com
28-Aug-2008 02:46
An update to the println function I wrote below, this is a more efficient, correct and returns a value (1, always; (print)).


function println($string_message = '') {
return isset($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL']) ? print "$string_message
" . PHP_EOL:
print $string_message . PHP_EOL;
}

?>
user at example dot net
25-Aug-2008 04:47
Be careful when using print. Since print is a language construct and not a function, the parentheses around the argument is not required.
In fact, using parentheses can cause confusion with the syntax of a function and SHOULD be omited.

Most would expect the following behavior:
if (print("foo") && print("bar")) {
// "foo" and "bar" have been printed
}
?>

But since the parenthesis around the argument are not required, they are interpretet as part of the argument.
This means that the argument of the first print is

("foo") && print("bar")

and the argument of the second print is just

("bar")

For the expected behavior of the first example, you need to write:
if ((print "foo") && (print "bar")) {
// "foo" and "bar" have been printed
}
?>
user at example dot net
25-Aug-2008 04:45
Be careful when using print. Since print is a language construct and not a function, the parentheses around the argument is not required.
In fact, using parentheses can cause confusion with the syntax of a function and SHOULD be omited.

Most would expect the following behavior:
if (print("foo") && print("bar")) {
// "foo" and "bar" had been printed
}
?>

But since the parenthesis around the argument are not required, they are interpretet as part of the argument.
This means that the argument of the first print is

("foo") && print("bar")

and the argument of the second print is just

("bar")

For the expected behavior of the first example, you need to write:
if ((print "foo") && (print "bar")) {
// "foo" and "bar" had been printed
}
?>
danielxmorris @ gmail dotcom
16-May-2008 11:08
I wrote a println function that determines whether a \n or a
should be appended to the line depending on whether it's being executed in a shell or a browser window. People have probably thought of this before but I thought I'd post it anyway - it may help a couple of people.

function println ($string_message) {
$_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] ? print "$string_message
" : print "$string_message\n";
}
?>

Examples:

Running in a browser:


Output: Hello, world!


Running in a shell:


Output: Hello, world!\n
jon
01-Jun-2007 02:19
the FAQTs article can be found archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20060601063513/http
://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1/fid/40

(url split to get past the line-length limitation)
mvpetrovich
30-Mar-2007 07:02
I grew quite tired of backslashes, and wrote these routines. It uses the back single quote as a substitute for double quotes within a statement. It made my code much more readable. It is a little easier than using a "here document." I also found I make a few less typing errors.


function qq($text) {return str_replace('`','"',$text); }
function printq($text) { print qq($text); }
function printqn($text) { print qq($text)."\n"; }

//example - before

echo "My Link\n";

//becomes - with printqn function

printqn("My Link");

?>
floppie at quadra-tec dot net
15-Nov-2006 05:09
At the top of your page, do something to this effect:
$n = "\n";
$t = "\t";
?>

Then, if you need your table cell four tabs in:

whatever' . $n); ?>

This means the parser only has to interpret four characters inside double quotes, then just stores them in variables. With strings that small, concatenating six things together won't be slow at all.
vincent at bevort dot com
21-May-2006 07:36
Sometime there is no choice in using a single or double quote
ie when using special chars to format the output to make the HTML more readable you have to use the Double qoutes. Single quotes make PHP fotmat the '\n' as text
phpnet at i3x171um dot com
21-May-2006 02:41
I have written a script to benchmark the several methods of outputting data in PHP: via single quotes, double quotes, heredoc, and printf. The script constructs a paragraph of text with each method. It performs this construction 10,000 times, then records how long it took. In total, it prints 160,000 times and records 16 timings. Here are the raw results.

Outputted straight to browser--

Single quotes: 2,813 ms
...with concatenation: 1,179 ms
Double quotes: 5,180 ms
...with concatenation: 3,937 ms
heredoc: 7,300 ms
...with concatenation: 6,288 ms
printf: 9,527 ms
...with concatenation: 8,564 ms

Outputted to the output buffer--

Single quotes: 8 ms
...with concatenation: 38 ms
Double quotes: 8 ms
...with concatenation: 47 ms
heredoc: 17 ms
...with concatenation: 49 ms
printf: 54 ms
...with concatenation: 52 ms

A nice graph of the script's output can be found here:
http://i3x171um.com/output_benchmarks/ob.gif

So what should you choose to print your text? I found several things out writing this.

First, it should be noted that the print and echo keywords are interchangeable, performance-wise. The timings show that one is probably an alias for the other. So use whichever you feel most comfortable with.

Second, if you've ever wondered which was better, the definitive answer is single quotes. Single quotes are at least four times faster in any situation. Double quotes, while more convenient, do pose a debatably significant performance issue when outputting massive amounts of data.

Third, stay away from heredoc, and absolutely stay away from [s]printf. They're slow, and the alternatives are there.

The source of my script can be found here:
http://i3x171um.com/output_benchmarks/ob.txt

DO NOT RUN THE SCRIPT ON THE INTERNET! Run it instead from localhost. The script outputs ~45 megabytes of text in an html comment at the top of the page by default. Expect the benchmark to take ~45 seconds. If this is too long, you can change the amount of iterations to a lower number (the results scale accurately down to about 1,000 iterations).
g8z at yahoo dot com
14-Mar-2006 07:16
I wanted to print a file on a Windows 2003 server from PHP, and found the "print" function instead. Just in case some other users are trying to physically print to a printer, rather than print to the screen, here's a function to do it.

This function will print a single file of one of these types: pdf, doc, xls, rtf, or plain text. If you have the full .exe path, you can print other document types, too. The shell_exec function is not enabled in safe mode.

Courtesy of Darren's Script Archive: http://www.tufat.com


function print_file($filename)
{
// path to your adobe executable
$adobe_path='"C:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 7.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe"';

$ext='';
$ext=strrchr($filename,'.');
$ext=substr($ext,1);
$ext_xl=substr($ext,0,2);

if ($ext=='pdf') {
shell_exec ($adobe_path.' /t '.$filename);
}
else if ($ext=='doc'||$ext=='rtf'||$ext=='txt') {
$word = new COM("Word.Application");
$word->visible = true;
$word->Documents->Open($filename);
$word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut();
$word->ActiveDocument->Close();
$word->Quit();
}
else if ($ext_xl=='xl') {
$excel = new COM("Excel.Application");
$excel->visible = true;
$excel->Workbooks->Open($filename);
$excel->ActiveWorkBook->PrintOut();
$excel->ActiveWorkBook->Close();
$excel->Quit();
}
}

// example of printing a PDF

print_file("C:/photo_gallery.pdf");

?>
jon at tap dot net
05-Dec-2005 09:48
I have a small utility run from the command line that processes a potentially huge list of files. As it can take hours to complete, I stuck a

print '.';

statement in the body of the main loop to prove that something was happening.

For reasons unknown to me, the utiliity suddenly started buffering the output such that it printed nothing until completion, defeating the purpose of the running monitor. Adding flush() statements did nothing. The problem was solved by using

fputs(STDOUT, '.');

but I have no idea why.
james-web at and dot org
25-Jul-2005 10:47
Note that if you want to dump the value of a variable, you want to use print_r(), var_dump() or var_export().
ejallison at gmail dot com
16-Jul-2005 10:10
This is a simple function for printing debug comments that I didn't think of for a long time. Maybe it'll serve you good too.


function printd($str) {
if ($debug) { echo $str; }
}

// ...

if ($valueCalculatedEarlierInTheScript == 3) {
doSomethingWithNoOutput();
printd("doSomethingWithNoOutput() has executed.");
}

?>

It's mostly just to make sure everything is running without having to go through everything and put in echo "Step #whatever has executed" whenever something mysterious isn't working.
gem at rellim dot com
05-Nov-2004 09:28
HERE Documents can reference arrays as long as you enclose
the vars in {}.

Like this:


$line = array( 'title' => "Hello", 'date' => 'Today');

echo <<Title: {$line['title']}
Date: {$line['date']}
EOT;

?>

Run this and get
Title: Hello
Date: Today

More info here, scroll down to "heredoc syntax":
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
rjl at xs4all dot nl
16-Jan-2004 12:08
To elaborate on above example adding an
array variable
$text = <<This uses the "here document" syntax to output
multiple lines with $variable interpolation. Note
that the here document terminator must appear on a
line with just a semicolon no extra whitespace!
User = {$_REQUEST['user']}
END;

'print $text;' Will output the string. Very handy for storing HTML.
Or adding {} around the array will allow you to use
above mentioned html blocks in conjuction with forms.

Rene =<>=


Source : http://php.net/manual/en/function.print.php

Print

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Print may refer to:

* Printing, mostly using a printing press, but a process which may also refer to other methods of Printmaking
o Printing press, printing with moveable metal type, see also Letterpress printing
o Publishing, the distribution of printed works or other information
o Print run, one batch of printing, that is, the number of copies printed by a single set-up of the printing press
o Textile printing
o 'In print', currently being published; compare Out of print
* Printing, a handwriting method using block letters as opposed to cursive
* Printmaking, various processes for producing multiple copies of works of art by printing
o Old master print, a product of printmaking, such as an engraving, etching or woodcut, in the European (as opposed to eg Asian) tradition, especially those made before 1830
o Photographic print, i.e. photograph or photo
* Input/output, computer output on a screen or on paper
o Computer printer, a device to put ink on paper
o Print (command), a shell command
* Print (filmmaking), e.g. distribution print
* A BASIC programming language command that generates text in text modes. Derived from the text printing process on teletype terminals prior to refreshing displays
* Print (magazine), a bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design
* Prints (album), a 2002 album by Fred Frith

Souerce : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print