Printers and MFDs Objective 3.6 Flashcards

1
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Wireless Connection

A

Comes with either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth

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2
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Infrastructure Mode

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Printer is connected to the access point

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3
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Wi-Fi Direct Mode

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Allows the printer to act as an access point

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4
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Bluetooth

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▪ Uses a wireless point-to-point connection from the printer
to the computer

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5
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Page Description Language (PDL)

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

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6
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Scalable Font

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▪ Capable of being resized to any size

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7
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Printer Control Language (PCL)

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

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8
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Postscript

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

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9
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XML Paper Specification (XPS)

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▪ Microsoft’s page description language (PDL)

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10
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Portable Document Format (PDF)

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▪ 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

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Print Server

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▪ 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

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12
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Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

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▪ Allows to share network printers and centralize the print server from the centralized window server

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13
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Printer Share

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▪ Allows to connect a printer using Bluetooth or USB

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14
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Print Spooler

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▪ Service built into the Windows OS and exists to help print jobs

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15
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User Authentication

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▪ Sets permissions for the printer that require a log in with a username or password

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16
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Audit Log

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▪ Record of jobs that have been sent and printed on a particular device

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17
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Secured Print

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▪ Device held on the printer until the user’s authentication

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18
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

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▪ Convert scanned text into digital documents that can be manipulated using a word processing program

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19
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Image Drum

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▪ Main component that creates the image to be applied to the paper

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20
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Fuser Assembly

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▪ Heats up and melts the toner onto the page to adhere properly to the page

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21
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Transfer Belt/Roller

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▪ Used as a way to transfer the image from the image drum and become fused

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22
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Pickup Roller

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▪ Used to pick up the paper from the feed tray and feed it through the
system

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23
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Paper Separation Pad

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▪ Helps the pickup rollers to ensure they only pick up a single piece of paper at a time

24
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Duplexing Assembly

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▪ Moves the paper from the front to the back

25
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Processing

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▪ The OS uses a print driver to translate what’s on the screen to print

26
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Charging

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▪ The imaging drum is conditioned with the primary charge roller

27
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Exposing

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▪ The surface coding of the photosensitive imaging drum is losing its charge when exposed to light

28
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Developing

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▪ The laser printer takes the toner and applies it to a developer roller

29
Q

Transferring

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▪ Moving the toner from the imaging drum into the print media

30
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Fusing

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▪ The fuser squeezes the paper between a hot roller and a pressure roller

31
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Cleaning

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▪ The photosensitive drum needed to be cleaned and get all the remaining toner particles cleaned off

32
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Use of maintenance kit

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▪ Feed rollers pull up one sheet at a time and feed it through the system
▪ Transfer rollers are used to take the toner off of the imaging drum and apply it to the paper
▪ Fuser unit is responsible for heating up the toner and making it bond to the page
▪ Page count indicates when to change the feed roller, transfer roller, or the fuse unit

33
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Calibration

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▪ Process by which the printer determines the print density or color balance to use

34
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Printhead (Inkjet Printer)

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▪ Device that takes the droplets of ink and directs into the paper

35
Q

Piezoelectric/Charge Method

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▪ Uses a nozzle that reacts to changes in voltage

36
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Thermal Method (Inkjet Printer)

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▪ Used by HP, Canon, and Lexmark printers, and relies on heating up the ink
in the nozzle of the printhead

37
Q

Roller

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▪ Responsible for advancing the paper through the inkjet printer

38
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Feeder

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▪ Allows multiple pieces of paper in a tray to be selected one piece of paper at a time and passes it to the roller

39
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Duplexing Assembly

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▪ Allows an inkjet printer to print on both sides of a piece of paper

40
Q

Carriage Belt/Carriage System

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▪ Allows the printhead to move back and forth across the page

41
Q

o Unidirectional Printing

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▪ Printhead will only apply ink from left to right

42
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Bi-directional Printing/Two-Directional Printing

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▪ Apply ink from left to right and from right to left

43
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Thermal Printer

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▪ Type of printer that uses a heating element to create an image

44
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Color Thermal Printer

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▪ Uses thermal ribbon to create images

45
Q

Cleaning the heating element

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▪ Use isopropyl alcohol with cotton swab to clean the printhead

46
Q

Removing debris

A

▪ Unplug the thermal printer
▪ Take out the paper role
▪ Clean the feed mechanism

47
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Impact Printers

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  • Impact printers are measured based on the quality of the dots
  • Impact printer has the highest resolution of 240 dpi
48
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Tracks (Impact Printer)

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▪ Series of holes going down the side of the paper with a perforation between the regular paper and tracks

49
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Printhead (Impact Printer)

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▪ Device that has a series of pins that make up the dot matrix that forms the image

50
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Ribbon

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▪ Fabric or material held within a plastic housing in front of the printhead

51
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Tractor Feed

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▪ Exists on both sides of the printer and pulls the paper through the printer using tractor fed paper

52
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3D Printer

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▪ Type of printer that creates images in three dimensions (height, width, and depth)
- A slice is one layer of the overall 3D model

53
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Print bed/Build plate

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▪ Flat plate where the material will be extruded and built

54
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Bed/Build Surface

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▪ Sheet placed on top of the base plate that hold the object into position while printing)

55
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Extruder

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▪ Printhead for 3D printers

56
Q

Fan

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▪ Helps to cool down the melted filament to retain the consistency

57
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Filament

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▪ Ink for 3D printers (1.75 mm or 3 m