It Essentials Chapter 7 Flash Cards

Front 1

Printer speed is measured in ___

Back 1

ppm - pages per minute

Front 2

Other names for Firewire

Back 2

iLink, IEEE 1394

Front 3

MTBF stands for ___

Back 3

mean time between failures

Front 4

TCO stands for ___

Back 4

total cost of ownership

Front 5

Which step of the laser printing process removes any residual toner from the drum?

Back 5

cleaning

Front 6

characterized by a wider path of information so multiple bits can be transferred at once - older standard for printers

Back 6

parallel

Front 7

newer printer interface with simple setup, PnP support.

Back 7

USB

Front 8

Print quality is measured in ___

Back 8

dpi - dots per inch

Front 9

Which printer technology uses crystals that are located in the ink reservoir at the back of each nozzle which vibrate when exposed to a charge?

Back 9

Piezoelectric

Front 10

ECP

Back 10

Enhanced Capabilities Port - bi-directional communication for printers and scanners

Front 11

Standard for parallel ports

Back 11

IEEE 1294

Front 12

NLQ

Back 12

near letter quality - ink jet printers are often near letter quality while laser printers print letter quality documents

Front 13

Which printer technology uses a pulse of electrical current that is applied to heating chambers around the nozzles?

Back 13

Thermal electric

Front 14

EPP

Back 14

Enhanced Parallel Port - bi-directional communication - EPP is for non-printer peripherals

Front 15

Name 3 wireless technologies that can be used when printing.

Back 15

Bluetooth, infrared, and wireless fidelity or wi-fi

Front 16

What is an advantage of thermal printers?

Back 16

Longer life because there are few moving parts

Front 17

How fast does 802.11g transmit?

Back 17

54 Mbps (megabits per second) and it's backward compatible with 802.11Bb.

Front 18

What should you avoid touching when servicing a laser printer due to high voltage?

Back 18

the primary corona wire

Front 19

Give an example of an impact printer.

Back 19

dot matrix, line matrix

Front 20

Which printer technology can produce photo quality graphics? It's name is applied because the dye transitions between the solid and gas states without going through a liquid stage.

Back 20

Dye sublimation. You have the output of one in your pocket - your ID card.

Front 21

Laser printer steps

Back 21

Continuous Care Will Delay Trouble Forever (Cleaning, Conditioning, Writing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing)

Front 22

Why shouldn't a laser printer be plugged into a UPS device?

Back 22

The power surge that occurs when the printer is turned on damages the UPS unit.

Front 23

What are the steps for printing a test page in Windows XP?

Back 23

start>printers and faxes>properties>general tab>print test page

Front 24

single bit at a time transfer

Back 24

serial

Front 25

Which step of the laser printing process removes the old image from the drum and places a new image on it?

Back 25

conditioning

Front 26

What is the term for technology that allows devices to be discovered by a computer and appropriate drivers loaded when the device is attached to the computer?

Back 26

PnP - plug and play

Front 27

List seven ways a printer can be connected to a computer.

Back 27

Serial, parallel, SCSI, USB, FireWire, and a wireless or wired network connection

Front 28

What are disadvantages to ink jet printers?

Back 28

Nozzles are prone to clogging, ink cartridges are expensive, and inkjet is wet after printing.

Front 29

What are advantages of ink jet printers?

Back 29

low cost, high resolution, and quick to warm up

Front 30

Which type of printers have print heads that strike the inked ribbon, causing characters to be imprinted on the paper?

Back 30

impact

Front 31

In which step of the laser printing process is the toner that's attached to image placed on paper?

Back 31

Transferring

Front 32

In which printer is the nozzle heated, creating a bubble of steam which forces the ink out onto the paper?

Back 32

thermal

Front 33

What technology converts a scanned printed page into text that can be edited with a word processor?

Back 33

OCR - optical character recognition

Front 34

list common image formats

Back 34

JPEG, TIFF, BMP, and PNG

Front 35

Name the process that adjusts settings to match the colors on the screen to the colors on the printed sheet.

Back 35

calibration

Front 36

In which type of scanner is the electronic image acquired by placing book or photograph down on a glass that lies above image sensors?

Back 36

flatbed scanner

Front 37

In which step of the laser printer process does the printer scan the drum with laser beam to create invisible image?

Back 37

Writing

Front 38

In which step of the laser printing process is the toner permanently fixed to the paper?

Back 38

Fusing

Front 39

Which type of printer is a high-quality, fast printer that uses a light beam to create an image?

Back 39

laser

Front 40

In which step of the laser printing process is the toner applied to the image on the drum?

Back 40

Developing

Front 41

How fast does 802.11b transmit?

Back 41

11 Mbps (megabits per second)

Front 42

What is a single purpose device that converts hard copy data to an electronic image?

Back 42

flatbed scanner