A+ Certification - Printers
wax
When a thermal printhead passes over the film ribbon, what melts onto the paper?
because of the precision
Why do laser printers usually use a laser as the light source?
printhead
You are printing from a dot-matrix printer and notice the characters look chopped off at the top. What should you try adjusting?
Inkjet
type of printer works by ejecting ink through tiny tubes
Centronics
A standard parallel cable used for older printers has a DB-25 connector on one end. What type of connector is on the other end?
Dot Matrix
A type of printer is used with multipart forms such as with point of sale machines
Print spooler
Assuming a printer is in good working order and online, what should you check next if nothing prints?
The photosensitive drum
At the end of the laser printing process, what is cleaned?
Dots per inch
How is laser printer resolution measured?
At least two
How many separate power supplies do laser printers typically have?
To fuse the toner to the paper
In a laser printer, what are the pressure roller and heated roller used for?
Laser
In a laser printer, what is used to write a positive image on the surface of the drum?
Charged
In a laser printer, what must be done to the drum to make it receptive to new images?
Transfer corona
In laser printers, what component applies a positive charge to the paper, drawing the negatively charged toner particles to the paper?
raster
A laser printer creates an image of dots and holds it in memory before printing it. What is this image of dots called?
vapor
The term sublimation means to cause something to change from a solid into a(n) ____ form and then back into a solid.
Iron
The toner in a laser printer is a fine powder. This powder is made up of plastic particles bonded to what other types of particles?
Plastic
Toner particles are composed mostly of ____, allowing them to be melted to the page.
Printers
What Control Panel applet is used to manage printers and faxes in Windows XP?
A damaged drum
What causes dark ghosting on printed pages?
transfer corona wire
What charges the paper in a laser printer?
drum
What does the primary corona wire charge?
ink
What is heated by tiny resistors or electroconductive plates at the end of each tube in an inkjet printer?
laser
What kind of printer relies on a photoconductive process?
inkjet
What kind of printers tend to have problems with ink drying out inside the nozzles when the printer is not used for a period?
the ozone filter
What needs to be vacuumed or replaced periodically in a laser printer?
RAM
What should be added to a laser printer to resolve a memory overflow problem?
clean the platen
What should you do if your dot-matrix printer output is covered with dots and small smudges?
Impact
What type of printer transfers data to the printer one character or one line at a time?
IEEE 1284
What's the standard that defines backward-compatible, high-speed, bidirectional parallel ports?