Chapter 26 Quiz (ITN107) - Printers and Multifunction Devices

What Control Panel applet is used to manage printers and faxes in Windows 7/8/8.1?

Devices and Printers

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

Laser

Printers can use ________, which enable the printer to automatically print on both sides of the paper.

Duplex assemblies

Which printer transfers data to the printer one character or one line at a time?

Impact

What charges the paper in a laser printer?

Transfer corona

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

Inkjet

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

Inkjet

What kind of printer relies on a photoconductive process?

Laser

The toner in a laser printer is a fine powder. This powder is made up of plastic particles bonded to ________ particles.

Pigment

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

Impact

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

Wax

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

It must be charged with a uniform negative charge.

In a laser printer, the ________ uses friction to isolate a single sheet from any others that were picked up.

Separation pad

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

CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black))

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

Driver

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

Ozone filter

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

Raster image

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

Clean the platen

The fuser assembly in a laser printer is almost always separate from the ________.

Toner cartridge

What does the primary corona wire charge?

The drum

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

RIP (raster image processor)

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

Draft quality

The Hewlett-Packard system for controlling printers is ________.

PCL (Printer Control Language)

How is laser printer resolution measured?

Dots per inch

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

Dot-matrix

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

By burning

In a laser printer, the pressure roller and heated roller are used to ________.

Fuse the toner to the paper

Most printers, scanner, and multifunction devices connect to a computer via a(n) ________.

USB port

Toner particles are composed mostly of ________, which allows them to be melted to the page.

Plastic

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

RAM

Laser printers usually use a laser as the light source because of their ________.

Precision

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

Ink

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

Print spooler

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

Vapor

Laser printers are particularly effective for printing ________.

Full-color images

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?

It becomes conductive

What causes an unwanted mark (dark ghosting) to appear on printed pages?

A damaged drum