Printers and MDFs - Printer Drivers

Question 1

Printer Drivers

Answer 1

Program that controls the physical printer

Question 2

Page Description Language (PDL)

Answer 2

Used to create a raster file from the print commands that are sent by software application

Question 3

PDL - Scalable Font

Answer 3

Capable of being resized to any size

Question 4

PDL - Vector Graphics

Answer 4

Size can be changed before printing

Question 5

PDL - Color Printing

Answer 5

Uses CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black)

Question 6

Printer Control Langue (PCL)

Answer 6

Developed by HP and is closely tied to the features of different printer models

Question 7

Postscript

Answer 7

Created by Adobe and is designed to be a device-independent PDL

Question 8

Virtual Printer - XML Paper Specification (XPS)

Answer 8

Microsoft’s page description language (PDL)

Question 9

Virtual Printer - Portable Document Format (PDF)

Answer 9

Created by Adobe which keeps a file’s original look when viewed or printed in different systems. Larger in size than XPS format files