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| A printer that uses a laser beam to project a document onto an electrically charged drum. |
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| 1.processing 2.charging 3.writing 4.developing 5.transferring 6.fusing 7.cleaning. |
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| Process step of laser printer |
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| The computer encodes the page in a printer language and sends it to the printer, creating a bitmap of the page and storing it in the ocmputers RAM. |
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| Charging step of laser printer |
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| The imaging drum is conditioned by a charging roller pwered by a high-voltage power supply assembly. the roller applies -600v across the drum's surface. |
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| Writing step of laser printer |
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| laser beam neutralized the negative charge on the photoreceptive drum to form an alectrostatic image. |
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| Developing step of laser printer |
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| A roller applies toner to the drum surface. |
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| transferring step of laser printer |
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| Trasferring is done using a transfer belt. |
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| fusing step of laser printer |
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| The toner is fused to the paper |
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| cleaning step of laser printer |
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| A sweep strip cleans the drum of resideal toner as it spings, and a rubber sleaning blade removes the toner from the area. |
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| A printer that forms images by firing microscopinc droplets of liquid ink out of ink jet nozzles mounted together on a carriage assembly that moves back and forth accross the paper. |
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| 1.preperation 2.ink dispersion 3. ink deposit 4. paper advance |
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| Preparation step of ink jet printer |
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| When the print process is initiated, a motor and belt mechanism moves a printhead across the printer. another stepper motor along with gears advace the paper into the printer. |
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| Ink dispersion step of ink jet printer |
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| As the printhead moves, images are formed by heat or vibration forcing liquid ink our of nozzles onto the paper. the printhead does not touch the paper. it will then flip the paper if two side capable. |
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| Ink deposit step of ink jet printer |
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| The printhead moves back and forth printing one row at a time. the amount of ink shot is determined by the driver software that controls where and when each nozzle deposits ink. |
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| Paper advance step of ink jet printer |
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| The paper advances using rollers and feeders after every row until the page is covered. |
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| a general term for any printer that uses a heating element to create the image on the paper with dye, ink from ribbons, or directly with pins while the feed assembly moves the media through the printer. |
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| 1. thermal dye transfer printer 2. thermal wax transfer 3. direct thermal printer |
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| any type of printer that strikes a component direcly against the ink ribbon to create characters on impact paper. |
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| 1. dot matrix 2. formed-character printer 3.line printer |
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| 1. pin strike 2.ink transfer 3.printhead move 4. letter quality pass. |
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| pin strike step of impact printer |
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| the prinhead has a vertical column of small pins that are controled by an electromagnet. the pins shoot out of the printhead and strike the ink ribbon. |
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| ink transfer step of impact printer |
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| the impact of the pin transfers ink from the ribbon to the printed page. |
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| printhead move step of impact printer |
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| after a set of pins has fired, an electromagnet pulls them back in, the printhead moves a fraction of an inch across the page , and another set of pins is fired. |
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| letter quality pass step of impact printer |
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| near letter quality printers usually use two or more passes over a line of text to increase the number of dots used per letter. this connects the dots to form sharper and clearer letters. |
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