Here’s a little something educational . . . A (very) brief description of how an inkjet printer works.

When you click the print button, the document you wish to print is sent to the printer drive. The printer driver translates the text and images into the inkjet printer’s language. After the printer receives the information, a controller activates the printer.

The rollers feed the paper into the printer and are positioned at the start of the page. The print head will then begin to move across the page spraying droplets of ink onto the page. As the print head is printing, the motor stops for less than a second to spray multiple dots at a defined area to create all colors.

When the print head reaches the end of the page, the rollers move the paper forward until the full page is printed.