Chapter 28 Printers test A+

IEEE 1284

What's the standard that defines backward-compatible, high-speed, bidirectional parallel ports?

Wax

When a thermal printhead passes over the film ribbon, what melts onto the paper?

Impact

Which of the following printers transfer data to the printer one character or one line at a time?

Printhead

You are printing from a dot-matrix printer and notice the characters look chopped off at the top. What should you try adjusting?

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?

Print spooler

Assuming a printer is in good working order and online, what should you check next if nothing prints?

Photosensitive drum

At the end of the laser printing process, what is cleaned?

Burned

How are dots put onto the surface of paper from a direct thermal printer?

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?

CMYK

The dye-sublimation printing technique is an example of what method of color printing?

vapor

The term sublimation means to cause something to change from a solid into a(n) ____ form and then back into a solid.

plastic

Toner particles are composed mostly of ____, allowing them to be melted to the page.

Draft

What are 9-pin dot-matrix printers generically called?

A damaged drum

What causes dark ghosting on printed pages?

Primary corona

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?

Toner cartridge

What is the fuser assembly in a laser printer almost always separate from?

Impact

What kind of printer creates an image on paper by physically striking an ink ribbon against the paper's surface?

Laser

What kind of printer relies on a photoconductive process?

Blank

What kind of printout usually results from an empty toner cartridge?

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?