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| Black Page (Laser Printers) |
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| Failure of the primary corona wire or bad laser scanning module. |
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| 3 Sections where paper jams occur |
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| Pick up, Registration, Fusing areas. |
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| Monitors the temperature of the unit. |
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| Cleaning (Phase of Laser Printers) |
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(Phase of the laser printing process).
Removes toner from the drum. |
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| Method of forming ink drops, heats the ink in a tube, causing it to explode through a nozzle. |
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| Used with heavy forms. Commonly found in dot matrix printers. |
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| Method of printing that uses ink droplets or laser print technologies to place characters on a page. |
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| Places characters on the page by causing a hammer device to strike an inked ribbon. |
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| Font type, stores dot patterns for all of the possible size & style varations of the characters in the set. |
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| Method of creating characters on a page in which dots are placed in a strategic pattern to trick your eye. |
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| Method of moving paper through the printer, by holding the paper against the printers platen. |
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| The locals computer's OS is configured to permit the remote stations on the network to print through it's printer. |
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| Developing (Phase of Laser Printers) |
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Phase of the laser printing process.
The toner powder is attracted to the positively charged image on the drum. |
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| Developing (Phase of Laser Printers) |
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Phase of the laser printing process.
The toner powder is attracted to the positively charged image on the drum. |
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| Transferring (Phase of Laser Printers) |
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Phase of the laser printing process.
Responsible for transferring the toner from the drum to the paper. |
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| Fusing (Phase of Laser Printers) |
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Phase of laser printing process.
The toner particles are bonded to the paer. |
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| Printer that comes with a built-in NIC Card. |
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| Method of delivering ink to the page, the controller causes a drop to be sprayed only where necessary. |
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| Method of forming ink drops, using vibrations from a piezoelectric cystal to force the ink through the nozzle. |
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| Conditioning (Phase of Laser Printers) |
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| Phase of the laser printing process. The primary corona wire creates a negative field on the drum. |
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| Writing (Phase of Laser Printers) |
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| Phase of the laser printing process. The Laser burns a positively charged image onto the drum. |
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| Print wires are heated so they can burn dot patterns into special thermal paper. |
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| Method of moving paper through the printer by pulling the paper by a set of pins. |
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| Method of creating characters on a page in which the character is fully shaped & fully filled in. |
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| Paper forms come in folded stacks and have holes along their edges. |
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| Newer type of out-lined fonts that are commonly used with Microsoft Windows. |
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| type of printer where a thermal print head melts dots of wax-based ink onto the paper. |
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| Parts of the HP electrophotographic cartridge. |
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| Toner Supply, Corona Wire, Drum Assembly, Developing Roller. |
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| Connector at the printer end. |
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| Font type, generated by establishing starting points and then calculating mathematical formulas. |
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| White Page (Laser Printers) |
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| Bad laser scanning module. Bad transfer corona wire. |
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| Cause of Wavy Graphics (ink jet) |
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| Paper's too fat (thick) and the feed rollers are bad. |
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| Smudged Print (Laser Printer) |
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| Missing Print (Laser Printers) |
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| Bad or mis-aligned laser scanning module or scanning mirror has a defect. Also low toner. |
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| Faint Print (Laser Printers) |
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| Toner level is low, empty, or poorly distributed. |
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| Specks or Stains (Laser Printers) |
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| Worn out cleaning pad or a defective corona wire. |
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