Printers

Question 1

Advantages of inkjet printers

Answer 1

Advantages :

Portability - these printers are quite small in comparison to other printers and are therefore easy to move from on place to another

Cost - the initial cost of buying the printer is low

Page cost - cost per page is lower than laser type

Space - compared to a laser printer an inkjet printer takes very little space on a desk

Question 2

Disadvantages of an inkjet printer

Answer 2

Cost - although the printer is affordable the ink cartridges are quite expensive

Speed - these printers are slow and are not suitable for high volumes of printing

Quality - copies might be slowly wet after the print job and might require time to dry

Question 3

Advantages of a laser printer

Answer 3

Quality - has high quality print outs

Speed - it can print more pages at the same time than the inkjet

Cost - replacing toner in this type of printer is cheaper than inkjet printers

Noise - hardly makes any noise

Question 4

Disadvantages of laser printer

Answer 4

Cost - A laser printer is more expensive than an inkjet printer

Space - laser printers are much bigger and heavier than inkjet printers, it therefore takes more space

Maintenance - servicing or fixing can be quite costly

Question 5

How does an inkjet printer work

Answer 5

Ink is heated and released through tiny holes, forming droplets that create dots making up an image or text, repeated until the entire image or text is made.

Question 6

How does a laser printer work

Answer 6

A laser beam is directed onto a drum to create a mirrored image of what needs to be printed, magnetizing parts of the drum. As the drum rotates, it picks up toner ink powder. This toner is then transferred onto paper, with a hot roller bonding the toner to the paper, printing the letters or images.

Question 7

What does default printer mean

Answer 7

All documents will be printed from this printer

Question 8

What does offline mean

Answer 8

The printer is switched off

Question 9

How to change default printer in windows 10

Answer 9

In the lower left corner of your screen, click the windows button and settings icon, select “Devices”

The printers installed on your computer are listed under “Printers & scanners”

Select prinet you wish to set as default

All cute print jobs will print to the new default printer, unless you select a different printer temporarily using “File” > ‘Print”