Printers and MFDs Objective 3.6 Flashcards
Wireless Connection
Comes with either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
Infrastructure Mode
Printer is connected to the access point
Wi-Fi Direct Mode
Allows the printer to act as an access point
Bluetooth
▪ Uses a wireless point-to-point connection from the printer
to the computer
Page Description Language (PDL)
▪ Used to create a raster file from the print commands that are sent by a software application
Scalable Font
▪ Capable of being resized to any size
Printer Control Language (PCL)
▪ Developed by HP and is closely tied to the features of different printer
models
Postscript
▪ Created by Adobe and is designed to be a device-independent PDL
XML Paper Specification (XPS)
▪ Microsoft’s page description language (PDL)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
▪ Created by Adobe which keeps a file’s original look when viewed or printed on different systems
▪ PDF is larger in size than XPS format files
Print Server
▪ Software application or hardware device that manages print requests and printer queue status information
▪ Centralized print server allows to control, to configure, and to troubleshoot the devices remotely from a network
▪ Print servers are suitable for small and home offices with up to fifty servers
▪ Embedded print servers support one printer
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
▪ Allows to share network printers and centralize the print server from the centralized window server
Printer Share
▪ Allows to connect a printer using Bluetooth or USB
Print Spooler
▪ Service built into the Windows OS and exists to help print jobs
User Authentication
▪ Sets permissions for the printer that require a log in with a username or password
Audit Log
▪ Record of jobs that have been sent and printed on a particular device
Secured Print
▪ Device held on the printer until the user’s authentication
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
▪ Convert scanned text into digital documents that can be manipulated using a word processing program
Image Drum
▪ Main component that creates the image to be applied to the paper
Fuser Assembly
▪ Heats up and melts the toner onto the page to adhere properly to the page
Transfer Belt/Roller
▪ Used as a way to transfer the image from the image drum and become fused
Pickup Roller
▪ Used to pick up the paper from the feed tray and feed it through the
system