Fwd: Phaser 7700 vs Okidata 9500: which is "best"?

Subject: Fwd: Phaser 7700 vs Okidata 9500: which is "best"?
From: Armand Rosenberg <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:00:42 -0500

Without addressing your moire issues directly, I wish to respectfully point out that LED (light emitting diode) generally refers to a device emitting light spontaneously and incoherently. By contrast, laser light results from stimulated and coherent emission. Hence "LED laser" is an oxymoron; the proper name is a semiconductor (or sometimes, diode) laser.

Whether one is superior to the other is application-specific and also depends on the engineers involved. Here it just sounds like some marketing types found some words to play with (their toys du jour). If they could at least use the terminology correctly...

Armand

At 10:00 PM -0800 11/18/03, email@hidden wrote:

That effect is nonexistent in the Phaser
because it
is a true laser whereas the xante is an LED laser. I don't know the
difference enough between these two technologies to explain why the
artefact
but the difference is somewhat annoying.

I don't see this problem with the Xanti ColourLaser Pro.
I believe it does not use LEDs.

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