Chapter 10 - Installing and Configuring Printers

Question 1

tell me the 4 types of printers

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Answer 1

impact
inkjet (bubble jet)
laser
thermal

Question 2

tell me the 2 major types of impact printers

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Answer 2

daisy wheel

dot matrix

Question 3

tell me the quality types for typewriters and early dot matrix printers

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Answer 3

typewriter - near letter quality

dot matrix - draft quality

Question 4

what does CMYK stand for?

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Answer 4

cyan, magenta, yellow, black

Question 5

what is the component of a bubble jet printer that you load the cartridges into?

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Answer 5

the carriage

Question 6

what does your printer need to have if its going to have two-sided printing capability?

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Answer 6

a duplexing assembly

Question 7

there are two major types of page printers that use the EP (electrophotographic) print process. tell me how they make their image.

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Answer 7

one uses a laser to scan the image onto a photosensitive drum

the second uses an array of light-emitting diodes

Question 8

true or false: the laser light in a printer is powerful enough to damage human eyes.

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Answer 8

true

Question 9

there’s a DC power supply for the laser printer. it converts house current into three voltages. tell me the voltages and tell me what they are used for.

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Answer 9

-5 VDC and +5VDC for the logic circuitry

+24 VDC for the paper transport motors

Question 10

what is the paper transport assembly responsible for?

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Answer 10

moving the paper through the printer

Question 11

what is the transfer corona assembly responsible for?

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Answer 11

transfers a high voltage charge to the paper so that the printer toner gets pulled from the photosensitive drum to the paper

Question 12

fusing assembly. what does it do?

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Answer 12

applies pressure and heat to fuse the toner particles to the paper

Question 13

what does the printer controller circuitry do?

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Answer 13

rasterizes the signals from the computer that are being sent to the assemblies in the laser printer

Question 14

tell me the 7 steps of the EP print process

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Answer 14

processing
charging
exposing (writing)
developing
transferring
fusing
cleaning

Question 15

what is a printer’s interface?

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Answer 15

its is the collection of hardware and software that allows the printer to communicate with a computer

Question 16

what is a popular wireless technology used to connect printers with a single computer or mobile device?

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Answer 16

Bluetooth

Question 17

what does the driver software do?

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Answer 17

it controls how the printer processes the print job

Question 18

tell me the three aspects of paper that indicates to the paper’s quality.

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Answer 18

composition - most paper today is a combination of cotton and wood pulp
basis weight - weight in pounds
caliper - thickness, can’t be too thick or too thin

Question 19

true or false: using ink cartridge refill kits is a good idea and recommended

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Answer 19

false, all kinds of problems

ink is thinner, doesnt replace the print head, ink may leak out

Question 20

tell me 4 things to watch out for in your printer’s environment

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Answer 20

heat
light
ozone
ammonia

Question 21

what kind of memory do most printers use today?

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Answer 21

the dual in-line memory module

Question 22

tell me the differences between a NIC in a printer and a NIC in a computer

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Answer 22

small processor to perform management of the NIC interface

NIC is proprietary

Question 23

tell me two reasons why firmware is upgraded on a printer

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Answer 23

might solve compatibility issues

newer features

Question 24

why would you add a hard drive to a printer?

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Answer 24

to store fonts used during the print process AND to store large document file while its being rpocessed for printing

Question 25

what is a finisher?

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Answer 25

the printer mechanism that folds, staples, punches holes, sorts the documents

Question 26

windows component not specific to printers

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Answer 26

graphics device interface

Question 27

two types of transfer corona assemblies

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Answer 27

corona wire

corona roller