Computer Maintenance Chapter 27

In a laser printer, the _______________ uses friction to isolate a single sheet any others that were picked up.

separation pad

Laser printers are particularly effective for printing _______________.

spot color

The fuser assembly in a laser printer is almost always separate from the _______________.

toner cartridge

The term sublimation means to cause something to change from a solid into a _______________ form and then back into a solid.

vapor

What Control Panel applet is used to manage printers and faxes in Windows 7?

Devices and Printers

What kind of printer is used with multipart forms such as those with point of sale machines?

Dot-matrix

What kind of printer uses a grid of tiny pins, also known as printwires, to strike an inked printer ribbon and produce images on paper?

Dot-matrix

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

Dot-matrix

How is laser printer resolution measured?

Dots per inch

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

Draft quality

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

Impact

Which printer transfers data to the printer one character or one line at a time?

Impact

What element is heated by tiny resistors or electroconductive plates at the end of each tube in an inkjet printer?

Ink

What kind of printers tend to have problems with ink drying out inside the nozzles when the printer is not used for a period?

Inkjet

What type of printer works by ejecting ink through tiny tubes?

Inkjet

During the laser printer process, after the erase lamp exposes the entire surface of the photosensitive drum to light, what happens to the photosensitive coating?

It becomes conductive.

In a laser printer, what must be done to the drum to make it receptive to new images?

It must be charged with a uniform negative charge.

In a laser printer, what component is used to write a positive image on the surface of the drum?

Laser

What kind of printer relies on a photoconductive process?

Laser

What needs to be vacuumed or replaced periodically in a laser printer?

Ozone filter

The Hewlett-Packard system for controlling printers is _______________.

PCL

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

Photosensitive drum

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

Print spooler

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

Printhead

Most printers, scanner, and multifunction devices connect to a computer via a _______________.

USB port

What causes an unwanted mark (ghosting) to appear on printed pages?

A damaged drum

The toner in a laser printer is a fine powder. This powder is made up of plastic particles bonded to _______________ particles.

pigment

Toner particles are composed mostly of _______________, which allows them to be melted to the page.

plastic

Laser printers usually use a laser as the light source because of their _______________.

precision

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

By burning

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

CMYK

What should you do if your dot-matrix printer output is covered with dots and small smudges?

Clean the platen.

What should be added to a laser printer to resolve a memory overflow problem?

RAM

What kind of chip is used by a laser printer to translate the raster image sent to the printer into commands for the laser?

RIP

A laser printer creates an image of dots and holds it in memory before printing it. What is this image of dots called?

Raster image

What does the primary corona wire charge?

The drum

In laser printers, what component applies a positive charge to the paper, drawing the negatively charged toner particles to the paper?

Transfer corona

What charges the paper in a laser printer?

Transfer corona

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

Wax

In a laser printer, the pressure roller and heated roller are used to _______________.

melt the toner to the paper