CH.26 Printers

Faulty software configuration

A standalone printer prints a test page just fine, but it makes gobbledygook out of your term paper. What's probably wrong?

laser printer

Electrostatic printer that focuses a laser beam to form images that are transferred to paper electrostatically

The wrong print driver has been selected.

Hannah has been working for your company for several years. Recently, she moved to a new department, which is located on a different floor. After the move, Hannah informs you that when she tries to print a Microsoft Word document (the same program she has always used), the printer on her new floor prints page after page of seemingly random characters. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of Hannah's print problems?

Configure the printer to be a shared printer.

If a printer is connected directly to a Windows workstation, what can be done to allow other workstations on the same network to send print jobs to this printer?

If the printer is Ethernet capable, it can be connected to the network through a wireless router.

If a printer is not Wi-Fi capable, how can it be set up to provide the most reliable wireless printing?

Duplexing

Jan, a user in the documentation department, printed a very large document. When Jan's boss walked by the printer and saw the large stack of papers, he called you and asked if you could configure the printer to help reduce the amount of paper used by her department. Which of the following printer configuration would BEST facilitate the manager's request?

Printwires

On a dot-matrix printer, what physically strikes the ribbon to form an image?

Impact Printers

Printers that create an image on paper by physically striking an ink ribbon against the paper's surface.

Windows GPI & XPS

Printing language developed by Microsoft that converted truetype fonts into document level images and XPS files

Network

The manufacturing department consists of 50 employees. Due to the number of employees in this department, the company cannot afford to have a printer for each user. Your company has purchased a new and very expensive laser jet printer for this department's use. This printer needs to be configured so all users in the department have the ability to print to this device from their own computers. Which of the following printer connections would BEST facilitate multiple user access?

electroconductive plates

What mechanism is used by most inkjet printers to push ink onto the paper?

The transfer filter

What part must be vacuumed or replaced periodically to prevent damage caused by the action of the corona?

Dye-sublimation

What printing process uses heat-sensitive plastic film embedded with various color dyes?

Developing Roller

Which component in a laser printer applies toner to the drum, causing the toner to stick to the charged areas on the drum?

Primary Corona

Which component in a laser printer prepares the photosensitive drum for writing by causing it to receive a negative electrostatic charge?

USB

Which connector is most commonly used to connect printers to desktop PC systems?

print driver

Which of the following allows a computer to communicate with a printer?

Multiple users can print to the same printer.

Which of the following is an advantage of connecting a printer to a network?

Connect your printer to an external print server device that is connected to the network.

Which of the following methods can be used to connect a printer to a network?

Plug an Ethernet cable into the network port in the printer.

Which of the following methods can be used to connect a printer to a network?

Dot matrix

Which of the following printer types is considered an impact printer?

600 DPI

Which of the following printers would produce the highest print quality?

Bubble jet (inkjet)

Which of the following types of printers heats the ink in its print head to print?

Print to image

Which of the following virtual printing options allows you to convert a Word document into a .jpg file?

Paper

Which of these items are considered to be dot-matrix printer consumables?

Ribbons

Which of these items are considered to be dot-matrix printer consumables?

USB

Which one of the following port types do most printers support?

Printer properties

Which printer management component would you use to view the drivers used by a printer?

manage this printer

Which printer permission would you assign to a user so that she can pause the printer?

print queue

Which term refers to the portion of the hard drive where print jobs are stored before going to the print device?

Print spooler

Which tool would help you determine why a print job didn't print?

Laser

Which type of printer uses lasers and electrical charges to transfer images to paper?

Photosensitive Drum

With a laser printer, what creates the image on the photosensitive drum?

Impact

You have been asked to recommend a printer that will be used in a travel agency. The printer will be used to print airline tickets. Each ticket has four pages (multi-part carbon-based forms), and the same information must show up on all four pages with a single pass of the printer. Which printer type would you recommend?

Print the file to PDF.

You have created a large course that describes how to install and use the software created by your company. You created the document using FrameMaker, which uses its own proprietary file format. Because your customers don't use FrameMaker, you need to print the document in a format that all of your customers can use. Your customers use Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. Which of the following print methods would provide the BEST output for your customers to use?

Edit the printer properties to configure device-specific settings.

You have just set up a new laser printer for the company president on her Windows workstation. You have installed the printer and the drivers. What should you do next?

Reset the page count.

You installed a new toner cartridge in a company-owned laser printer and did some maintenance tasks that you noticed needed to be done. Which of the following BEST describes the next step you should perform?

Printer cartridge calibration

You replaced the ink cartridges in a color inkjet printer. Users are now complaining that print quality has degraded, lines are fuzzy, and the colored areas in images are starting or stopping before they should. Which inkjet maintenance task do you need to perform?

Calibrate the printer.

You replaced the print cartridge on an inkjet printer. Which of the following BEST describes the next step you should perform?

Use an anti-static vacuum.

You're conducting scheduled maintenance on a laser printer. You notice that there is a build-up of excess toner inside the interior of the printer. Which of the following is the BEST way to remove the excess toner?

Toner cartridges recommended by the printer manufacturer.

You're responsible for ordering consumables for your organization's printers. Users print from these printers frequently and demand the utmost in reliability. Which of the following would be the BEST option when ordering new toner for these printers?

Verify that it is working correctly by printing a test page.

You've just set up a color laser printer on a customer's Windows workstation. You've connected it to the workstation using a USB cable and have loaded the appropriate drivers. Which of the following are the BEST steps to take next?

Laser

Your company needs to print a lot of high-quality black-and-white text documents. These documents need to be printed as quickly and inexpensively as possible. The printer must also have the capacity to perform duplex printing. Which of the following printers BEST meets the printing requirements for your company?

You do not have the Manage documents permission.

Your system administrator shared a USB laser printer connected to your Windows 10 system so other users on the network can send jobs to it. A network user has sent a large job to the printer, but the print job has stalled. You try to delete the print job, but can't. Which of the following BEST describes the reason you cannot delete the print job?

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127

reverse power up

allow printer to power up and warm up before booting up PC in order to allow both devices peak power ons

Epson scanner software

allows you to edit software on the computer and place scanned images into editable objects for software enhancement

Cloud & Remote Printing

allows you to upload your document into the web and remotely connect to a printing device over the cloud

Imaging drum

an aluminum cylinder coated with particles of photosensitive compounds

Inkjet cartridge

color cartridge with nozzle that is used on printers

toner cartridge

component that it placed within printer in order to allow machine to have ink to produce prints on loose leaf paper

rasterized

converting a document into a series of strips for the printer to print the document

print to Image

converts documents into JPG/BMP/PNG files

print to PDF

converts documents into PDF files

print to XPS

converts documents into XPS files

flatbed scanner

device that allows you to place a document facedown on the glass surface and close the lid, the object will get scanned to a document software file and be stored on the PC

21 error

error associated with laser printers that indicated page document complexity is too much to handle for print engine, the only way to solve this problem is by lowering the image complexity

Airprint

functionality that let's macOS and Apple iOS devices to share printing functionality to windows printers

PostScript

hardware level single raster image document file that were developed by adobe

Memory Overflow error

not enough RAM is available on the printer and in order to circumvent this error the image needs to use lower graphics, reduced complexity, and lower resolutions

print spooler

once you process the print an icon on the desktop taskbar will appear and will display the queue of jobs that are currently running

Plastic filament

plastic used to insert inside 3D printers and create printed objects

Thermal printer

printer that uses special paper that reacts to heat exposure in order to display information on paper

Connectivity

printers mostly connect to the computer through USB but can also connect over the air through WiFi and through an RJ45 ethernet _____. Older legacy printers have a serial, parallel, or SCSI _____.

Inkjet Printers

printers that use four color ink dispersion cartridges and spray paper with an inked image

dye-sublimation printer

printers used for high end photo printing with very fine detail

Duplex printing

printing on both sides of the paper

virtual printers

software that allows you to save individual documents

HP PCL

superseded ascii code that became more advanced printer language

raster image processor (RIP)

takes digital information about fonts and graphics and converts it to a rasterized image to be readable by the printer controller and printed.

Scanning Speed/Performance

the higher the DPI and color depth settings will be when printing an image the slower the ____ will be due to processing this high demand of information

Scanning DPI

the higher this is the higher quality the accuracy of the scan will be

Scanning Color Depth

this settings allows the printer more wider and accurate color ranges that could be output from the printer

3-D Printers

use melted plastic material to create prints of three dimensional objects

network printer mapping

used for large scale enterprise environments for printer accessibility

printer sharing

used for small scale SOHO environments for users to access printer functionalities

Automatic Document Feeders

usually found on the top of the printer that indicated which direction to feed the documents into the machine