S18 - Printers & MFDs

Question 1

What a recommendation when unboxing the printer to as to make sure it’s not damaged

Answer 1

After opening it, allow for it to stay like that for an hour or two so that the moisture goes, and it can acclimate

Question 2

When choosing a location for the printer what should you make sure the room (2 things)

Answer 2

convenience & good ventilation (printers have chemicals being expelled)

Question 3

Where are USB connection printers usually founds

Answer 3

Home environment

Question 4

What do printers with ethernet capability support

Answer 4

DHCP

Question 5

What does infrastructure mode within Wi-Fi and printers refer to

Answer 5

Having the printer access the access point

Question 6

What are the 3 connectivity methods for printers

Answer 6

USB, Ethernet, Wireless

Question 7

What rights do you need to install print drivers

Answer 7

administrative

Question 8

Define page description language (PDL) (aka print driver)

Answer 8

Used to create a raster file from the print commands hat are sent by a software application

Question 9

Define scalable font

Answer 9

Resizing of font size

Question 10

Define vector graphic

Answer 10

Size can be changed before printing

Question 11

Define colour printing

Answer 11

The capacity to print with CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black)

Question 12

What are the 2 types of PDL

Answer 12

PCL, Postscript

Question 13

Define Printer control language (PCL)

Answer 13

Developed by HP and is closely tied to the features of different printer models

Question 14

Define Postscript

Answer 14

Created by adobe and is designed to be a device-independent PDL

Question 15

Define XML Paper Specification (XPS)

Answer 15

Microsoft’s page description language (PDL)

Question 16

Define Portable Document Format (PDF)

Answer 16

Created by adobe which keeps a file’s original look when viewed or printed on different systems

Question 17

PDF vs XPS in terms of size

Answer 17

PDF is large in size

Question 18

3 Things to KNOW KNOW for the exam

Answer 18

1) When installing a printer, also install the appropriate driver
2) Two generic format of PGLL PCL & Postscript
3) 2 Main Virtual printer specifications: XPS & PDF

Question 19

What does duplex refer to in printing

Answer 19

capacity to print both sides of a sheet at once

Question 20

Define print server

Answer 20

software application or hardware device that manages print requests and printer queue status information

Question 21

What does a centralised print server allow for

Answer 21

Allows to control, configure and troubleshoot the devices remotely from a network

Question 22

What are print servers suitable for

Answer 22

Small and home offices with up to 50 users

Question 23

Define Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

Answer 23

Allows to share network printers and centralises the print server from the centralised windows server

Question 24

Define Printer share

Answer 24

Allows to connect to a printer view Bluetooth or USB

Question 25

Define Print Spooler

Answer 25

Service built into windows OS and exists

Question 26

Function of Print Spooler

Answer 26

Service built into windows OS and exists to help print jobs

Question 27

How many printers do embedded print servers support

Answer 27

Just the 1, itself and no more

Question 28

2 method of sharing printers

Answer 28

Print server, Printer share

Question 29

Audit log in terms of printers

Answer 29

A report of all the printer jobs sent in and printed on a particular device

Question 30

Define secured print

Answer 30

Device held on the printer until the user's authentication, e.g. authentication through id card with RFID

Question 31

Define Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Answer 31

Converts scanned text into digital documents that can be manipulated using a word processing program