Chapter 27

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

duplexing assembly

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

fuse the toner to the paper

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

How is laser printer resolution measured?

Dots per inch

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

Draft quality

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

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

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

Photosensitive drum

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

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

. Impact

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

CMYK

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

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