Printers

Answer the following questions concerning Chapter 18:

• What is an 'impact printer'?
• What are the 3 common character font types?
• What port did printers originally use to interface with a PC?
• What is a printer controller?
• What is a dot-matrix printer? Describe how it works?
• Describe how thermal printers operate?
• Describe how inkjet printers operate?
• Describe how laser printers operate?
• What are the 6 stages of operation for a laser printer?
• What does LASER stand for?
• Describe how dye sublimation printers operate?
  
• What makes a printer 'network-ready'?
• What s the most important software part of a printer installation?
• What is 'PostScript'?
• What is 'PCL'?
• How do you access the printer spooler?

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