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1
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How does a Inkjet printers print?

A

Dropping ink onto the page

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Which type of printer drops ink onto the page?

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Inkjet

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How does Inkjet printers feed paper?

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Feed rollers

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How does the ink move across a page on Inkjet printers?

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Carriage

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What moves the carriage back and forth on Inkjet printers?

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Belt

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What are feed rollers?

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Feeds the paper on a Inkjet printer

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What is a carriage on an Inkjet printer?

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It holds the cartridges on an Inkjet printer

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What does the belt do on an Inkjet printer?

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It’s moves the carriage back and forth

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Up to how many ink cartridges might there be on an Inkjet printer?

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4

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What does an inkjet printer need to do to make sure the cartridges are aligned?

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calibration

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What kind of colors are used in an inkjet printer?

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CMYK

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Where does the image get drawn onto on laser printers?

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Photosensitive drum

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What is the photosensitive drum on laser printers?

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It is what the image gets drawn onto by the laser

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What draws the image onto the photosensitive drum on a laser printer?

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The laser

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What does the photosensitive drum pick up?

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Toner

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What fuses the toner to the paper on a laser printer?

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Fuser assembly

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What does the fuser assembly do on a laser printer?

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It fuses the toner to the paper

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How does the fuser assembly get the toner to stick to the page?

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It melts it and add pressure

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What kind of colors are used in a laser printer?

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CMYK

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Are toner cartridges separated or combined on a laser printer?

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Separate

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What transfers the image from the cartridges to the paper on a laser printer?

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Transfer belt

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What is a transfer belt on a laser printer?

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It transfers the toner from the cartridges onto the paper

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What picks up the paper and pulls it into the laser printer?

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Pick up roller

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What is a pickup roller on a laser printer?

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It picks the paper up and pulls it into the printer

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What is a separation pad?
Pulls just the top sheet from the paper tray
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What pulls just the top sheet from the paper tray?
Separation pad
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What is duplex on a printer?
It lets you print on both sides of the page without having to manually flip the paper
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What lets you print on both sides of the paper without having to flip the page manually?
Duplex
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When in duplex mode on a printer does it print on both sides at the same time?
No
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What does Processing (Step 1) do on laser printers??
Building the entire page in memory
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What does Charging (Step 2) do on laser printers??
Prepare the drum with a negative electrostatic charge
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What does Exposing (Step 3) do on laser printers?
Write the image with the laser
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What does Developing (Step 4) do on laser printers?
Add negatively-charged toner to the imaging drum
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What does Transferring (Step 5) do on laser printers?
Move the toner from the drum to the paper
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What does Fusing (Step 6) do on laser printers?
Adds heat and pressure to fuse the toner to the page
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What does Cleaning (Step 7) do on laser printers?
Cleans the photosensitive drum
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Which step in laser printing builds the entire page in memory?
Processing (Step 1)
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Which step in laser printing prepares the drum with a negative electrostatic charge?
Charging (Step 2)
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Which step in laser printing writes the image with a laser to the photosensitive drum?
Exposing (Step 3)
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Which step in laser printing adds negatively-charged toner to the imaging drum?
Developing (Step 4)
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Which step in laser printing moves the toner from the drum to the paper?
Transferring (Step 5)
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Which step in laser printing add heat and pressure to the paper to fuse the toner?
Fusing (Step 6)
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Which step in laser printing removes the excess toner from the photosensitive drum?
Cleaning (Step 7)
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Which type of printing uses no ink?
Thermal
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What pulls the paper through on a thermal printer?
Feeding assembly
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How does a thermal printer work?
Heats up the paper and burns the image onto the page
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Does the heating element on a thermal printer move?
No it’s a full-length heating element
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What kind of paper do you need for a thermal printer?
Thermal paper
49
What is a virtual printer?
Saves to a file
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Which type of printer saves to a file?
Virtual printing
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How do you copy a file to a printer on a virtual printer?
Use the command line
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What types of files can a virtual printer save?
.pdf/.xps/ Image file
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How do impact printers work?
print head with a small matrix of pins presses against a ribbon to make a mark on the paper
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What puts the information on a the page on a impact printer?
Print head
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How many print heads does an impact printer have?
1
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Which type of printer prints with a small matrix of pins that strike the page?
Impact Printer
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Which piece has the ink in it on a impact printer?
Printer ribbon
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What is a printer ribbon on a impact printer?
It is the piece that has the ink on it
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How is a page fed on an impact printer?
Tractor feed
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What is a tractor feed?
It pulls the paper through with holes on the side of the paper

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