Deck 28: Printers

Question 1

When a thermal printhead passes over the film ribbon,what melts onto the paper?

A) Wax
B) Toner
C) Dye
D) Ink

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What is heated by tiny resistors or electroconductive plates at the end of each tube in an inkjet printer?

A) Ink
B) Toner
C) Toner powder
D) Nozzle

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What kind of printers tend to have problems with ink drying out inside the nozzles when the printer is not used for a period?

A) Color
B) Laser
C) Inkjet
D) Dot-matrix

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What kind of printer relies on a photoconductive process?

A) Dot-matrix
B) Inkjet
C) Laser
D) Thermal

Question 5

During the laser printer process,after the erase lamp exposes the entire surface of the photosensitive drum to light,what happens to the photosensitive coating?

A) It becomes bright.
B) It becomes electrically charged.
C) It becomes conductive.
D) It becomes nonconductive.

Question 6

What type of printer works by ejecting ink through tiny tubes?

A) Laser
B) Inkjet
C) Dot-matrix
D) Impact

Question 7

The dye-sublimation printing technique is an example of what method of color printing?

A) CKMY
B) CYMK
C) CMYK
D) CKMY

Question 8

In laser printers,what component applies a positive charge to the paper,drawing the negatively charged toner particles to the paper?

A) Transfer corona
B) Turning gears
C) Laser
D) Toner

Question 9

How is laser printer resolution measured?

A) Color per inch
B) Dots per inch
C) Pixels per inch
D) Bits per inch

Question 10

What are 9-pin dot-matrix printers generically called?

A) Economy
B) Near-letter
C) Draft
D) Letter

Question 11

What does the primary corona wire charge?

A) Fuser assembly
B) Paper
C) Toner
D) Drum

Question 12

What kind of printer is used with multipart forms such as with point of sale machines?

A) Dot-matrix
B) Daisy-wheel
C) Inkjet
D) Color

Question 13

What should you do if your dot-matrix printer output is covered with dots and small smudges?

A) Replace the drum.
B) Clean the platen.
C) Clean the printhead.
D) Replace the cartridge.

Question 14

The term sublimation means to cause something to change from a solid into a(n)____ form and then back into a solid.

A) vapor
B) viscous
C) liquid
D) crystal

Question 15

What kind of printer creates an image on paper by physically striking an ink ribbon against the paper's surface?

A) Laser
B) Dot-matrix
C) Thermal
D) Impact

Question 16

The toner in a laser printer is a fine powder.This powder is made up of plastic particles bonded to what other types of particles?

A) Nickel
B) Polyester
C) Aluminum
D) Iron

Question 17

You are printing from a dot-matrix printer and notice the characters look chopped off at the top.What should you try adjusting?

A) Toner
B) Printhead
C) Cartridge
D) Drum

Question 18

How are dots put onto the surface of paper from a direct thermal printer?

A) Transferred
B) Etched
C) Embedded
D) Burned

Question 19

Why do laser printers usually use a laser as the light source?

A) Because of the intensity
B) Because of the brightness
C) Because of the precision
D) Because of the inexpensiveness

Question 20

In a laser printer,what are the pressure roller and heated roller used for?

A) To melt the toner to the paper
B) To fuse the toner to the paper
C) To burn the toner to the paper
D) To apply the toner to the paper

Question 21

Toner particles are composed mostly of ____,allowing them to be melted to the page.

A) carbon
B) power
C) plastic
D) Teflon

Question 22

How many separate power supplies do laser printers typically have?

A) At least two
B) At least three
C) At least four
D) At least five

Question 23

Which of the following printers transfer data to the printer one character or one line at a time?

A) Impact
B) Laser
C) Dye-sublimation
D) Thermal

Question 24

What's the standard that defines backward-compatible,high-speed,bidirectional parallel ports?

A) IEEE 1284
B) IEEE 1394a
C) IEEE 1394b
D) RS-232

Question 25

What needs to be vacuumed or replaced periodically in a laser printer?

A) Ozone filter
B) Drum
C) Toner cartridge
D) Powder

Question 26

What causes dark ghosting on printed pages?

A) A damaged laser
B) A damaged toner
C) A damaged head
D) A damaged drum

Question 27

At the end of the laser printing process,what is cleaned?

A) Toner
B) Laser head
C) Photosensitive drum
D) Power unit

Question 28

A standard parallel cable used for older printers has a DB-25 connector on one end.What type of connector is on the other end?

A) Centronics
B) FireWire
C) USB A
D) USB B

Question 29

What kind of printout usually results from an empty toner cartridge?

A) Blank
B) Dirty
C) Vertical white lines
D) Embossed effect

Question 30

What kind of chip is used by a laser printer to translate the raster image sent to the printer into commands for the laser?

A) RAM
B) RIP
C) ROM
D) UART

Question 31

What kind of printer uses a grid of tiny pins,also known as printwires,to strike an inked printer ribbon and produce images on paper?

A) Dot-matrix
B) Inkjet
C) Laser
D) Thermal

Question 32

What charges the paper in a laser printer?

A) Primary corona
B) Transfer corona
C) Fuser assembly
D) Laser

Question 33

Which of the following printers uses heat or a mechanical method to move ink onto paper?

A) Dot-matrix
B) Inkjet
C) Impact
D) Laser

Question 34

Assuming a printer is in good working order and online,what should you check next if nothing prints?

A) Calibration
B) Port settings
C) Printer emulation
D) Print spooler

Question 35

What should be added to a laser printer to resolve a memory overflow problem?

A) RET
B) RIP
C) ROM
D) RAM

Question 36

A laser printer creates an image of dots and holds it in memory before printing it.What is this image of dots called?

A) Raster
B) Laser
C) Vector
D) High-resolution

Question 37

In a laser printer,what is used to write a positive image on the surface of the drum?

A) Toner
B) Marker
C) Laser
D) Head

Question 38

What is the fuser assembly in a laser printer almost always separate from?

A) Laser head
B) Gearbox
C) Drum
D) Toner cartridge

Question 39

In a laser printer,what must be done to the drum to make it receptive to new images?

A) Cleaned
B) Discharged
C) Heated
D) Charged

Question 40

What Control Panel applet is used to manage printers and faxes in Windows XP?

A) Printers
B) Hardware
C) Printers and Faxes
D) Printers and Hardware

Question 41

Print speed is measured in ____________________.

Question 42

A (n)____________________ combines the functions of printer,fax,and scanner in one piece of equipment.

Question 43

Thermal dye transfer printing is sometimes called ____________________ printing.

Question 44

When a laser printer's ____________________ is charged with an extremely high voltage,an electric field forms,enabling voltage to pass to the drum and charge the photosensitive particles on its surface.

Question 45

The ____________________ printing technique is an example of the CMYK method of color printing.

Question 46

Printers that create an image on paper by physically striking a (n)____________________ against the paper's surface are known as impact printers.

Question 47

In a laser printer,the ____________________ is an aluminum cylinder coated with particles of photosensitive compounds.

Question 48

Laser printers rely on the ____________________ properties of certain organic compounds.

Question 49

NLQ stands for ____________________.

Question 50

A (n)____________________ contains important information regarding hazardous materials and safety procedures.

Question 51

The term ____________________ means to cause something to change from a solid form into a vapor and then back into a solid.

Question 52

Dye-sublimation printing is also known as ____________________ printing.

Question 53

____________________ printers use a grid of tiny pins,also known as printwires,to strike an inked printer ribbon and produce images on paper.

Question 54

A laser printer's ____________________ exposes the entire surface of the photosensitive drum to light,causing any electrical charge present in the particles to bleed into the grounded drum.

Question 55

A laser printer's ____________________ is measured in dots per inch,or dpi.

Question 56

If,when printing a document on a dot-matrix printer,the characters look chopped off at the top or bottom,the ____________________ needs to be adjusted.

Question 57

In thermal wax transfer printers,the thermal ____________________ passes over the film ribbon and melts the wax onto the paper.

Question 58

The ____________________ in a laser printer is a fine powder made up of plastic particles bonded to iron particles.

Question 59

A common problem with inkjet printers is the tendency for the ____________________ to dry out when the printer is not used,even for a relatively short time.

Question 60

A laser printer's transfer corona applies a positive charge to the paper,drawing the ____________________ charged toner particles to the paper.

Question 61

A laser printer's heated roller has a nonstick coating to prevent the ____________________ from sticking to it.

Question 62

The tiny pipes that squirt ink onto the paper are called ____________________.

Question 63

Ink is stored in special small containers called ____________________.

Question 64

A laser is used to write a (n)____________________ image onto the surface of the drum.

Question 65

The Add Printer Wizard allows you to set up a local or ____________________ printer.

Question 66

Dot-matrix printers that use ____________________ pins produce letter quality or near-letter quality output.

Question 67

Most laser printers have a special ____________________ filter that needs to be vacuumed or replaced periodically.

Question 68

A laser printer's ____________________ assembly permanently attaches toner to the paper.

Question 69

Every particle on a laser printer's drum that is hit by the laser will release most of its ____________________ charge into the drum.

Question 70

Thermal dye transfer printing is sometimes called ____________________ printing.

Question 71

The printing process ends with the ____________________ and ____________________ cleaning of the photosensitive drum.

Question 72

____________________ printers use an electro-photographic imaging process to produce high-quality and high-speed output of text and graphics.

Question 73

In Windows,a default printer is identified by a(n)____________________.

Question 74

Today,the typical ____________________ printer uses a standard RJ-45 Ethernet cable or wireless interface.

Question 75

__________ starts the physical part of the printing process.

Question 76

The two key features of an inkjet printer are the print ____________________ and the print ____________________.

Question 77

Most printers connect to a PC via a DB-25 parallel port or a(n)____________________ port.

Question 78

Mostly composed of plastic,____________________ particles can be melted on to the paper.

Question 79

If you attempt to use a printer shared by another PC,but Windows pops up with an "Access Denied" error,you might not have __________ to use the printer.

Question 80

Laser printers use a chip called the ____________________ to translate the raster image sent to the printer into commands to the laser.