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If you have a Phaser solid ink printer or are considering buying one, you might be wondering how they function. The solid ink bars that are used in the printer are applied to the paper through heat and pressure. If you own one, you know it takes a long time to heat up, gives off the odor of warm wax, and gives off a bit of heat. This is necessary to operate the machine.
The Phaser solid ink printers need to warm up the ink sticks in order to print. This takes a bit of time, especially if the ink needs to go from cold to its melting point. If you start up a machine from scratch, there is a delay in printing.
It can be easier to keep the machine on standby. This lets the Phaser solid ink printer keep a reserve of ink warm and ready, letting the first page print at a much more rapid pace than if the machine was started from cold. The problem with this is that the printer must expel the ink on the ink heads so as to remove the air bubbles and imperfections that would give a poor quality to that first page.
It’s for this reason that some of the ink from ink sticks is wasted. There is an expelled ink tray in these sorts of printers that is just for this purpose. This is obviously not necessary for liquid ink printers, because they do not require heat for the ink to be prepared.
For all of this, there is a lot of energy used on ink stick printers. This is an environmental concern, but there are tradeoffs. The packaging for these ink sticks is greatly reduced, which is a good benefit for the environment. Keep these points in mind if you are buying or switching to a solid ink printer.

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