Printers

Question 1

What is the six-step laser printing process?

Answer 1

1. Cleaning
2. Charging (or conditioning)
3. Writing
4. Developing
5. Transferring
6. Fusing

Question 2

What is another name for a laser printer drum?

Answer 2

Photoelectric or Photosensitive drum

Question 3

In some laser printers the drum, laser, and primary corona are contained within what?

Answer 3

toner cartridge

Question 4

What are two common types of inkjet printers?

Answer 4

1. Thermal inkjets
2. Piezoelectronic inkjets

Question 5

What is the Inkjet Print Process?

Answer 5

1. The paper is moved into position by a roller
2. The print head moves across the paper, placing black and colored ink
3. The paper is advanced and the print head returns to the left margin.
4. Page is completed and ejected

Question 6

Impact Printers use______to transfer ink to paper.

Answer 6

Force

Question 7

What are two types of Impact Printers?

Answer 7

1. Daisy Wheel
2. Dot-Matrix

Question 8

A______ printer is one that connects directly to a computer, normally by USB or parellel connection

Answer 8

Local

Question 9

A _______ Printer is one that connects directly to the network or to a print server device.

Answer 9

network

Question 10

What could be the cause of a printer printing garbage?

Answer 10

Possible incorrect print driver

or maybe

A bad formater board or printer interface

Question 11

What can cause ghosted or blurry images from a printer?

Answer 11

A bad toner cartridge or drum

Question 12

What can cause out of memory errors on a printer?

Answer 12

The document could be to large for the memory and the printer may need the RAM memory replaced or added to

Question 13

Black lines and smearing from a printer can be caused by what?

Answer 13

bad drum or dirty primary corona wire (black lines)

bad fuser (smearing)