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Chapter 22 - Printers and Multifunction Devices Flashcards

1
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Laser Printer

A

a printer with a photosensitive drum

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Steps of a Laser Printer

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  1. Processing, 2. Charging, 3. Exposing, 4. Developing, 5. Transferring, 6. Fusing, 7. Cleaning.
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Processing

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Print job is stored on the local memory of the printer.

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Charging

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Primary corona puts a negative charge on the Photosensitive drum.

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Exposing

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Laser writes on the drum reducing the drums charge.

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Developing

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Toner release ink that sticks to the drum.

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Transferring

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The Transfer corona charges the paper with a strong positive charge, and hits the drum printing to the paper.

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Fusing

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Heat and pressure apply the ink to the paper.

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Cleaning.

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A scrapper cleans off any excess ink/toner on the paper.

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10
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Steps to maintain laser printer?

A

Replace toner and clean printer.

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11
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Maintenance Kits

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Basically a tools/parts kit that come with or pair/match up with laser printers.

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Calibration for laser printers

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Color printers will need to have the transfer rolls re-calibrated.

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13
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MFD stands for what?

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Multifunction devices(MFDs) inlcude printers, scanners, copiers, and fax machines.

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14
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Maintain an Inkjet printer

A

Clean the nozzles/jets, and again calibrate colored inkjet printers. replace ink cartridges, clear paper jams,

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Inkjet printers

A

Use heat or mechanical process to push ink through the print heads to the paper.

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impact printers

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very old printers that strike an ink ribbon to write to paper, used during the old days of mainframes. Don’t have maintenance kits.

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Ink Ribbon

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holds the ink and presses the ink to the paper.

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18
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Maintenance for Impact Printers

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Replacing Ink Ribbons and Print Heads. Tractor feed paper jams.

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Print Heads

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presses a needle through the ink ribbon to press ink on the paper

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20
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Impact Paper

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Paper used in Impact printer, a multipart form or otherwise known as tractor feed paper.

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21
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Thermal Printers

A

a receipt printer, heats special paper to create a printout. Where you hit the paper with heat it changes color.

22
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Thermal Printer parts

A

Feed assembly and a heating element.

23
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Special Thermal Paper

A

Thermal multiform paper seen with thermal printers.

24
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Maintenance for Thermal printers

A

Replacing paper a lot, clean heating element, remove debris.

25
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Primary connection for all types of printers?

A

USB but some do use serial connections

26
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Printer firmware

A

Printers do have firmware and commonly have firmware updates.

27
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Spooler

A

is just the software that stores print jobs. You have to have permissions to operate the spooler.

28
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Collate

A

Number and staple paper.

29
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Duplex

A

Double sided printing.

30
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Virtual Printers

A

Print to PDF, Print to XPS, Print to Image. Not actually printing just sending/converting to a certain file type or location.

31
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Sharing Printer

A

Sharing a local printer over a network requires sharing enabled and a share name.

32
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Data Privacy

A

Shared printers which are usually MFDs copy and send data to public locations like icloud and google drive.

33
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Mapping printers

A

Used to print from very old programmers.

34
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Google cloud printing

A

Cloud printing enables moblie devices to print to a printer associated with an online account, such as google account.

35
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Unable to install printer

A

No permissions to install the printer.

36
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No Connectivity

A

are you connected to it, is it on the network, are other people connected to it.

37
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Rollback device driver

A

if not working rollback device driver and re-install.

38
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Access denied

A

no permissions

39
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No image on printer display

A

Is it on, is it in sleep mode, locked out of printer

40
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Paper not feeding, Paper jam

A

pick-up rollers and separate pads need to be replaced, humidity destroys paper

41
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Low memory errors

A

Laser printers have RAM, reduce resolution, buy more RAM for the printer.

42
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Error Codes

A

research code errors and figure out what the error code means.

43
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Garbled Characters on paper

A

bad or corrupted drivers, clear spooler and hard reset printer.

44
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Vertical lines on pages

A

Laser printer foreign matter on your optic sensitive roller. Replace toner.

45
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Color prints in the wrong print color

A

Driver, lost a color/empty color cartridge.

46
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Printing blank pages

A

Physical issue, like replacing toner

47
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Streaks

A

inkjet, clogged inkjet heads

48
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Faded Prints

A

Laser replace toner, impact replace ribbon, inkjet clogged jets.

49
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Ghost Images

A

Laser printer replace toner

50
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Toner not fused to paper

A

Laser printer replace fuser

51
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Creased Paper

A

maintenance kit pick-up rollers.

52
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3D printers

A

3D printers melt some material(such as forms of thermal plastic) in a pattern to create 3D shapes

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