Laurence M. Hubby

Optical System Design For A Laser Printing System

The last ten years has seen the commercial introduction of many laser printing systems. These systems have generally been aimed at the very high end of the printer market, where high throughput and high image quality are necessary to justify an equally high price. The optical system of such a printer is typically required to provide the highest resolution and printing speed possible consistent with the properties of the remainder of the system. I would like to describe in this paper some of the trade offs involved in the design of one such optical system, that of the Hewlett Packard 2680.