S18 - Printers & MFDs Flashcards
What a recommendation when unboxing the printer to as to make sure it’s not damaged
After opening it, allow for it to stay like that for an hour or two so that the moisture goes, and it can acclimate
When choosing a location for the printer what should you make sure the room (2 things)
convenience & good ventilation (printers have chemicals being expelled)
Where are USB connection printers usually founds
Home environment
What do printers with ethernet capability support
DHCP
What does infrastructure mode within Wi-Fi and printers refer to
Having the printer access the access point
What are the 3 connectivity methods for printers
USB, Ethernet, Wireless
What rights do you need to install print drivers
administrative
Define page description language (PDL) (aka print driver)
Used to create a raster file from the print commands hat are sent by a software application
Define scalable font
Resizing of font size
Define vector graphic
Size can be changed before printing
Define colour printing
The capacity to print with CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black)
What are the 2 types of PDL
PCL, Postscript
Define Printer control language (PCL)
Developed by HP and is closely tied to the features of different printer models
Define Postscript
Created by adobe and is designed to be a device-independent PDL
Define XML Paper Specification (XPS)
Microsoft’s page description language (PDL)
Define Portable Document Format (PDF)
Created by adobe which keeps a file’s original look when viewed or printed on different systems
PDF vs XPS in terms of size
PDF is large in size
3 Things to KNOW KNOW for the exam
1) When installing a printer, also install the appropriate driver
2) Two generic format of PGLL PCL & Postscript
3) 2 Main Virtual printer specifications: XPS & PDF
What does duplex refer to in printing
capacity to print both sides of a sheet at once
Define print server
software application or hardware device that manages print requests and printer queue status information
What does a centralised print server allow for
Allows to control, configure and troubleshoot the devices remotely from a network
What are print servers suitable for
Small and home offices with up to 50 users
Define Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
Allows to share network printers and centralises the print server from the centralised windows server
Define Printer share
Allows to connect to a printer view Bluetooth or USB
Define Print Spooler
Service built into windows OS and exists
Function of Print Spooler
Service built into windows OS and exists to help print jobs
How many printers do embedded print servers support
Just the 1, itself and no more
2 method of sharing printers
Print server, Printer share
Audit log in terms of printers
A report of all the printer jobs sent in and printed on a particular device
Define secured print
Device held on the printer until the user’s authentication, e.g. authentication through id card with RFID
Define Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Converts scanned text into digital documents that can be manipulated using a word processing program
