Color printer a common optical source for several colors.

摘要

The color printer comprises a plurality of sets of print (1, 2, 3, 4) of a plurality of colors, arranged in series in a chain (5) to print a printing support and comprising, each, an electrostatic drum for printing (11) fixing of the pigments of a specific color according to an image formed by the scanning of an optical beam (21 - 24) modulated by the image data (32) and transferred to the print medium and it comprises a single optical beam source (16), common to all the printing units (1 - 4) and of the switching means (18, 20) switching the source (16) on the different drums (11).