Chapter 10: Installing & Configuring Printers

Question 1

T/F Some printers can handle over 100,000 pages per month. pg. 484

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Some replacement activities for maintenance of a printer are………??? pg. 485

Answer 2

replacing paper, ink or toner cartridges, and ribbons.

Question 3

The first factor considered as an indication to a paper’s quality. pg. 485

Answer 3

composition

Question 4

Paper made from cotton is called ___ ___. pg. 485

Answer 4

rag stock

Question 5

How many pages in a ream of paper? pg. 485

Answer 5

500

Question 6

What does the caliper of paper mean? pg. 485

Answer 6

thickness

Question 7

If printer ribbons and ribbon cartridges use cloth or polyester ribbon soaked in ink, then what do bubble-jet cartridges use? pg. 486

Answer 7

liquid ink reservoir

Question 8

Each model of laser printer uses a specific ___ ___. pg. 486

Answer 8

toner catridge

Question 9

Many businesses will recycle your toner or ink cartridges for you, refill them, and sell them back to you for a discount. So what should you do? pg. 486

Answer 9

DON’T BUY THEM

Question 10

How should you approach recycling cartridges? pg. 487

Answer 10

Always properly recycle your used ink/toner cartridges, but DON’T BUY RECYCLED.

Question 11

Which two key options on an HP printer are used to reset the maintenance message from On to Off? pg. 488

Answer 11

1) Menu……to get to the Configuration menu and 2) Item key….to get to the Service Message

Question 12

Why do thermal printers require special attention? pg. 489

Answer 12

heating element

Question 13

What are four areas of concern for your printer’s ideal environment? pg. 489

Answer 13

Heat, Light, Ozone, Ammonia

Question 14

Higher-end printers have upgrade options like………?? pg. 490

Answer 14

memory, network cards, and firmware

Question 15

What computer standard do most printers use nowadays? pg. 490

Answer 15

DIMM / dual in-line memory module

Question 16

What are advantages of installing a NIC on a printer? pg. 491

Answer 16

1) it replaces the need to connect to a host computer 2) it’s proprietary 3) a printing request goes directly to the NIC printer as opposed to third-party device

Question 17

What’s installed on a NIC to allow clients to check their print job’s status and toner levels from any computer on the network? pg. 491

Answer 17

management software

Question 18

Most of the time, upgrading a printer’s firmware is a matter of what? pg. 492

Answer 18

downloading and/or installing a free file from the manufacturer’s website

Question 19

What are some additional upgrade options (especially on laser printers) the manufacturer offers…? pg. 492

Answer 19

hard drives, trays and feeders, finishers

Question 20

Define printer-resident fonts. pg. 492

Answer 20

multiple fonts installed into the onboard memory of the printer

Question 21

Why would you install additional hard drives to your printer? pg. 492

Answer 21

Most printers have a limited amount of storage space for added fonts and to store a large document file while it being processed for printing

Question 22

What’s the advantage of adding an additional paper tray to a printer? pg. 492

Answer 22

the additional paper tray allows a printer to print more sheets between paper refills, thus reducing it’s operating costs

Question 23

Some printers can accommodate multiple paper trays, which can be loaded with what? pg. 492

Answer 23

paper, stationary, and envelopes

Question 24

Related to trays, this accessory would be added to print envelopes correctly. pg. 492

Answer 24

envelope feeder

Question 25

What does a Finisher do? pg. 493

Answer 25

provides paper folding, stapling, hole punching, sorting, or collating

Question 26

The Finisher option can turn a laser printer into a multfunction copier, but what other copier can do all the same thing as a laser printer but much faster and cheaper? pg. 493

Answer 26

digital printer