Printers and MFDs 3.6 Flashcards
what printer has printhead?
Inkjet printer
what printer has drum and toner cartridges
Laser printer
windows has the ability to detect a printer using plug and play
USB connection
Network cable that uses RJ45 port and supports DHCP
Ethernet connection
comes with either wifi or bluetooth
wireless connection
printer is connected to the access point
infrastructure mode
allows the printer to act as an access point
wifi direct mode
uses a wireless point to point connection from the printer to the computer
Bluetooth
a program that controls physical printers
printer
integrated into a printer and must have administrative rights to install printer drivers
Printer Driver
used to create a raster file from the printer commands that are sent by a software application
Page Description Language (PDL)
capable of being resized to any size
scalable font
size can be changed before printing
vector graphic
developed by HP and is closely tied to the features of different printer models
Printer Control Language (PCL)
created by Adobe and is designed to be device independent PDL
Postscript
Microsoft’s page description language (PDL)
XML paper specification (XPS)
Created by Adobe which keeps a file’s original look when viewed or printed on different systems.
bigger sizer than XPS files
Portable Document Format (PDF)
software application or hardware device that manages print requests and printer queue status info
allows to control, to configure, and to troubleshoot the devices remotely from a network
Printer server
allows to share network printers and centralized the print server from the centralized window server
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
Allows to connect a printer using bluetooth or USB
Printer Share
Service built into the windows OS and exists to help print jobs
Print Spooler
sets permissions for the printer that requires a log in with a username or password
Use Authentication
Record of jobs that have been sent and printed on a particular device
Audit Log
Device held on the printer until the user’s authentication
Secured print
allows the printer to be used as a copy machine or a scanner
Scanning
digital imaging device
scanner
convert scanned text into digital documents that can be manipulated using a word processing program
Optical character recognition (OCR)