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21 Cards in this Set
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How many heads did the original dot matrix printer have? The new printers?
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Old 7
New 24 |
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NLQ = ____ ____ ____
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Near Letter Quality
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Dot matrix printers were called ____ printers because the actually stuck the page.
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Impact
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Dot matrix printers moved the paper through the printer by a method called ____ ____.
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Tractor Feed
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What was the name of the specail paper used by dot matrix printers?
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Continous Form Paper
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How was the speed of a dot matrix printer calculated?
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By how many characters it can produce per second
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Inkjet printers use 1 of 2 types of ink, what are they?
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1 Liquid ink cartridges
2 Solid, wax-based cartridges |
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Inkjet printers are ________ printers because they never actually touch the paper.
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Non-impact
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Inkjet printers are also known as ____ _____ because they process an entire page before starting to print.
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Page printers
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Inkjet printers feed the paper through the printer with the ______ _____ mechanism.
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Friction Feed
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How does the friction feed method work for inkjet printers?
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Small roller press down on the stack of paper and roll the paper into the printer.
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Most Liquid & Solid inkjet printers use a _______ process to eject ink onto the paper.
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Thermal
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In the case of Liquid inkjet printer the heating element does what to the ink? Solid inkjet printers?
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Boiling the ink (Liquid)
Melting the ink (Solid) |
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An inkjet print head contains between ___ & ___ nozzles, each about the diameter of a human hair.
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300
600 |
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What type of printer uses a specail crystal at the back of the ink reservoir to eject ink?
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Epson
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What is used to counter the drying of ink inside the jets of an inkjet printer?
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All inkjet printers move the print head to a special park position to keep the ink from drying
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What does the term Sublimation mean?
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to cause something to change from a solid, into a vapor, & back into a solid.
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Dye-Sublimation Printers are also known as what?
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Thermal dye transfer printers
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How does a dye sublimation printer work?
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It uses a roll of heat-sensitive plastic film embedded with sections of cyan, magenta, & yellow dye.
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During printing with a dye sublimation printer what happens to the heat sensitive film?
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a print head containing 1000s of heating elements moves across the film, vaporizing the dyes which soak into the special paper below.
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After the vaporized dyes soak into the paper of a dye sublimation printer, what happens next?
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The dye cools & reverts to a solid form. The process requires 1 pass per page for each color. (Kodak Printer)
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