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Last Vocab Flashcards

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Used mainly for photo printing, high-end desktop publishing, medical and scientific imaging, and other applications for which fine detail and rich color are more important than cost and speed.

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Dye-Sublimation printer

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Contains a variety of control codes for transferring data, some of which can be used to control printers.

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ASCII

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Another name for the primary corona wire in new laser printers, located close to the photosensitive drum, never touches the drum.

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Primary Charge Roller

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An aluminum cylinder coated with particles of photosensitive compounds.

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Photo Sensitive Drum

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An Impact Printer, these are still found in many businesses because of their ability to print multiple-part forms.

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Dot-Matrix Printer

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The density of ink, which affects print quality.

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Print Resolution

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Print speed is measured this way.

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Pages Per Minute (PPM)

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Part of the Laser Printer that is almost always separate from the toner cartridge. This is what is used to fuse the toner to the paper.

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Fuser Assembly

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This is charged with an extremely high voltage, and a fiel forms, enabling voltage to pass to the drum and charge the photosensitive particles on its surface.

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Primary Corona

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Type of page description language developed by Adobe Systems in the early 1980’s as a device-independent printer language capable of high-resolution graphics and scalable fonts.

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Post Script

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Included in the original IBM PC as a faster alternative to serial communication.

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Parallel Port

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Enables you to queue up multiple print jobs that the printer will handle sequentially.

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Print Spooler

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Measurement of Print resolution where higher numbers mean that the ink dots on the page are closer together, so your printed documents will look better.

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Dots Per Inch

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The case that holds the printwires.

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Printhead

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Used by Dot-matrix printers. Is a grid, or matrix, of tiny pins, that strike an inked printer ribbon and produce images on paper.

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Printwire

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Type of connector that is D-shaped and has 25 pins on one end.

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DB-25

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Exposes the entire surface of the photosensitive drum to light, making the photosensitive coating conductive

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Erase Lamp

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Developed by Hewlett-Packard as a more advanced printer language to supersede simple ASCII codes.

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Printer Control Language

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Matches the print output of your printer to the visual output on your monitor and governs that through software.

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Calibration

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Printing subsystem which provides several improvements over GDI, including enhanced color management and better print layout fidelity.

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XML Paper Specifications (XPS) Printpath

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This removes the charge from the paper during the printing process.

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Static charge eleminator

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A quality of print that is not quite letter quality, but is better than draft quality. Many dot-matrix printers produce this.

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Near-Letter Quality

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Component of the Operating System to handle print functions in Windows XP.

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Graphic Device Interface

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A chip used by a laser printer to translate the raster image into commands to the laser.

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Raster Image Processor

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Use a heated printhead to create a high-quality image on special or plain paper.

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Thermal Printer

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Technology was originally developed by Tektronix, whose printer division was acquired by Xerox and uses sticks of nontoxic “ink” that produce more vibrant color than other print methods.

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Solid Ink Printer

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Proposed by a group of printer manufacturers in 1991, this calls for a commitee be formed to propose a standard for backward-compatible, high-speed, bitdirectional parallel port for the PC.

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IEEE1284 Standard

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Comes with its own onboard network adapter that uses a standard RJ-45 Ethernet cable to connect the printer directly to the network by way of a router.

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Network Printer

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Is used in a Laser printer to supply the toner that creates the image on the page.

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Toner Cartige

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Draws the toner onto the paper

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Transfer Roller

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Special small containers that store ink.

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Ink Cartridge

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A thin wire which applies a positive charge to the paper, drawing the negatively charged toner particles to the paper.

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Transfer Corona

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Fine powder made up of plastic particles bonded to iron particles

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Toner

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Acts as the writing mechanism of the printer.

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Laser

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Produces high-quality and high-speed output of both text and graphics.

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Laser Printer

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A pattern of dots representing what the final product should look like produced by a laser printer.

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Raster Image

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Enables the printer to insert smaller dots among the characters, smoothing out the jagged curves that are typical of printers that do not use RET.

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Resolution Enhancement Technology

38
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Uses a printhead connected toa carriage that contains Ink. A belt and motor move the carriage back and forth so the ink can cover the whole page.

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Inkjet Printer

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Printers that create an image on paper by physically striking an ink ribbon against the paper’s surface.

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Impact Printer

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This portable computer features a massive screen, a full-size keyboard, an optical drive, and plenty of hard drive space.

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Desk Top Replacement

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A feature on a portable computer that detects the voltage at the outlet and adjusts accordingly.

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Auto-Switching Power supply

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This resembles a Port replicator but offers legacy and modern single- and multi-function ports.

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Docking Station

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Windows Vista and Windows 7 allow a designation of files and folders that are stored on a hard drive that are automatically synced on the file server when a laptop is connected on a network.

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Offline Files

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Intel put forward this standard in 1996 that allows a laptop to suspend operations if no activity is detected after a specified period of time.

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ACPI

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enables you to perform actions with multiple fingers, such as scrolling up and down or swiping to another screen or desktop.

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MultiTouch

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The second of three types of batteries used for portable PCs: This is basically a Ni-Cd battery without most of the headaches.

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Nickel Metal-Hydride

47
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The first of three types of batteries for protable PCs: this technology had a problem with “Battery Memory”

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Nickel Cadmium

48
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Offers a robust computing platform with low cost and long battery life. Usually have displays in the 10-inch range.

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Netbook

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These are 32-bit, 3.3V cards that can have up to eight functions on a single card.

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Cardbus

50
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One of two types of expansion slots in a portable computer, this is the newer type made after 2005.

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Mini-PCIe

51
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Intel put forward this standard in 1992 that allows a laptop to suspend operations if no activity is detected after a specified period of time.

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Advanced Power management

52
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One of two types of expansion slots in a portable computer, this is the older type (2005 and earlier)

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Mini-PCI

53
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These are 16-bit, 5V cards that can have up to two distinct functions or devices.

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16-bit

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The comparison of the screen width to the screen height.

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Aspect Ratio

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Finish on a Laptop screen that was standard for many years and offered a good trade-off between richness of colors and the reduction of glare

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Matte

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Also called a clamshell computer, has a built-in LCD monitor, keyboard, and input device (Like a touchpad)

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Notebook

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The process of power management created by Intel in the 386SX CPU which enabled the CPU to slow down or stop its clock without erasing the rgister information, as well as enabling power saving in peripherals.

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System Management Mode

58
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a special pen that enable you to write on the screen of a Tablet PC

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Stylus

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The high-performance serial version of the PC Card, that has replaced PC Card slots on laptop PCs over the last decade.

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Express Card

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A joystick the size of a pencil eraser, situated in the center of the keyboard on IBM’s laptops.

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Trackpoint

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A type of laptop that is thin, light, and powerfuul, and is as much about power and portablility as it is looks.

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Ultrabook

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Started by Microsoft in 2001, and defined as fully featured portables running a tablet-aware version of Windows and using a stylus to interact directly with the screen.

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Tablet PC

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Credit card-sized devices that enhance and extend the functions of a portable PC.

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PC card

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Plugs into a single port on the portable computer - often a USB port but sometimes a proprietary port - and offers uncommon and common PC ports, such as serial, parallel, USB, network, and PS/s.

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Port Replicator

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Suspend where critical configuration information is written to the hard drive.

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Hibernation

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Used by almost every portable keyboard to enable some keys to perform a third duty.

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Function key

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Released by laptop manufaturers in 2006 offering sharper contrast, richer colors, and wider viewing angles when compared to the matte screens.

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Hi-Gloss

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Reduces the cost of video cards by reducing the amount of memory on the video card itself.

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Shared Memory

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Feature that enables the user to require the system to go into Standby after a set period of time or to turn off the monitor or hard drive after a time, thus creating your own custom power scheme.

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Sleep Timer

70
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Older term used by CompTIA to describe PC Cards.

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PCMCIA Card

71
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Offered by Windows Vista and Windows 7 and enables better control over power use by customizing a blaanced, power saver, or high performance power plan.

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Powerplan

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Most common laptop pointing device found today characterized by a flat, touch-sensitive pad just in front of the keyboard.

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Touchpad

73
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Another name for a notebook or any other type of portable computer.

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Laptop

74
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Used in todays portable computers because the battery chemistry provides the highest energy density for the weight and has few problems with external factors.

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Lithium-Ion

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