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| Visual only output, as seen on-screen. |
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| Printed output, as seen on paper. |
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| Printer in which some part of the the printing mechanism physically strikes the page. |
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| Printer in which no part of the the printing mechanism actually touches the page; characters/images are formed by spraying ink or transferring toner to the page. |
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| An example of an impact printer. |
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| laser, ink jet, and thermal printers |
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| Examples of nonimpact printers. |
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| Small shards of metal in a dot matrix printer that push through an inked ribbon to make characters on a page. |
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| This size dot matrix printhead created draft quality output. |
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| This size dot matrix printhead creates near letter quality (NLQ) output. |
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| Two disadvantages to the use of dot matrix printers. |
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| A carbonless form consisting of two or more pages. |
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| inexpensive, low cost of consumables, ability to print multipart forms |
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| Three advantages to the use of dot matrix printers. |
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| The type of paper-feed mechanism used by dot matrix printers. |
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| Prints pages by spraying heated ink through a series of nozzles. |
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| characters per second (cps) |
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| The speed of dot matrix printers is measured in this unit. |
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| The speed of ink jet and laser printers is measured in this unit. |
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| This type of high-end, commercial-style printer is used to print glossy publications and posters. |
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| Refers to the process by which a solid dye turns into a gas without first turning into a liquid. |
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| four - one for each CMYK color |
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| The number of "passes" it takes to print a page with a dye sublimation printer. |
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| Prints pages by exposing heat-sensitive paper to a heated element. |
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| Prints pages by transferring negatively charged toner to positively charged paper. |
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| Particles of lead and plastic which are melted to form a laser-printed page image. |
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| Container inside a toner cartridge in which toner is stored. |
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| Component inside the hopper which applies a negative charge to toner. |
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| Photosensitive cylinder on which a positive page image is etched by a laser or LED. |
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| Laser printer component that removes residual charge and applies a uniform neutral charge to the drum before printing begins. |
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| Applies a uniform negative charge to the drum. |
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| Applies a positive charge to paper, allowing it to "pull" toner from the drum. |
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| "Etches" a positive page image on the negatively charged drum. |
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| Melts the toner and presses it into the paper. |
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| This main laser printer component is the only one not located in the toner cartridge. |
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| cleaning, charging, writing, developing, transferring, fusing |
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| List the six steps of the laser printing process in order. |
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| In this step of the laser printing process, the erase lamp applies a neutral charge to the drum. |
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| In this step of the laser printing process, the primary corona applies a negative charge to the drum. |
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| In this step of the laser printing process, the laser writes a positive page image to the drum. |
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| In this step of the laser printing process, negative toner attaches to the positive page image on the drum. |
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| In this step of the laser printing process, the transfer corona applies a positive image to the paper that attracts the negative toner image on the drum. |
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| In this step of the laser printing process, the toner is melted and presses toner to the paper. |
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| A laser printer attachment that manually or automatically feeds paper for printing on both sides. |
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| A laser printer attachment that may support stapling, collating, hole-punching, and binding. |
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| A program that stores and manages print jobs. |
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| A list of print jobs awaiting processing. |
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| A request to print from a application. |
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| USB, FireWire, and parallel |
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| List three standard wired connections for printers. |
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| Bluetooth, infrared, and wi-fi |
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| List three standard wireless connections for printers. |
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| List two legacy connections for printers. |
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| The process of matching the print output of a printer to the visual output of a display device. |
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| The standard color palette for color printers (cyan--yellow--magenta--black). |
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| The standard color palette for color display devices (red--green--blue). |
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