Chapter 8: Trouble shooting Printers Flashcards
What is a local printer?
Directly attached to the P/C-computer via USB, Parallel, serial, firewire port.
What is a network printer?
Network printers can be shared local printers or printers that are connected directly to the network with built-in network cards or expandable jet-direct cards
What is a print device?
When you install the physical print device, which Microsoft refers to a print device.
What is a Printer driver?
When you create the printer, you also load a printer driver, which acts as translator for Windows and the programs running on Windows so that they do not have to worry about the specifics of the printer’s hardware and printer language
What is a print job?
If the printer job is sent to the local print device, the print to temporarily saved to the local hard drives spool file
When the physical printer is available, the printer will send the print job to the local print device
If Windows determines the job is for a network print device, windows send the job to the printer server spooler.
It is sent to local spooler which provides background printing, allowing you to print and queue additional documents whenever the printer is busy.
What are the common languages for printing?
(HP) Hewlett Packards, Printer Control Language (PCL) and adobes PostScripts
What format is used for spool file?
Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
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To print to a printer, you need to ___________ permissions
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HP’s Printer Control Language and Adobes post script are examples of ____________
Print Job
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When you print a document, the document is sent as a _________ so that it can print in the background
Enhanced metafile (EMF)
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Besides manually installing the print drivers, drivers can also be provided by a print ____________
device
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If you constantly have a large volume of printing that must be done each day that cannot be handled by a single printer, you should set a ___________
Printer Pool
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To configure which driver a printer is using or to configure the trays of printer, you would access the printer’s ______________
Preferences
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By Default, the printer permission is assigned to the _________ group
Everybody
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The print _________ show information about a document such as print status.
Queue
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If a printer becomes unresponsive, you should restart the ____________
Spool
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The Default Location of the spool folder is _________
C:\Windows \System32\SpoolPrinters
Which type is printer is connected directly to the network?
Network printer
With Windows, the physical printer is known as?
Print Device
The Logical Printer that users can access in Windows is known as?
Printer
TCP/IP printer use port
443
What single virtual printer with a single print queue that consists of two or more printer?
Printer Pool
To manage other peoples print Jobs, you need to assign the
Manage documents
To manage printers used in the internet printing, you would access the
http://servername/printer
