Terms and definitions.
This is used by laser printers to create the image.
What is an imaging drum?
This uses Bluetooth paring to connect to printers.
What is wireless connection?
This cartridge allows the print to be put on the paper.
What is an ink cartridge?
This is made up of hot rollers, which melt the toner into paper.
What is a fuser assembly?
The toner, attached to the image, is transferred to the paper.
what is step 5?
The colors of ink used in color printing.
What is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key?
These ports are generally found on legacy computer systems and are referred to as a COM.
What is a serial port?
This is what pushes the paper out of the printer.
What is a roller?
These move the sheet of paper out of the tray, then through the printer during printing process.
What are pickup rollers?
To write the image, the photosensitive drum is exposed with the laser beam.
What is step 3?
Used by inkjet printers to create the image.
What is Electrostatic spray?
This data transfer path is wider than a serial data transfer path and is generally found on legacy computer systems.
What is a parallel port?
This holds documents which are fed page by page onto the scanner bed for copying.
What is a feeder?
This turns a page that is already printed on one side so it can be printed on the other side.
What is duplexing assembly?
The printer converts data from common languages to a bitmap stored in the printers memory.
What is step 1?
The rate at which the printer can output pages.
What is pages per minute?
This port is also known as i.LINK or IEEE 1394 and is independant.
What is firewire?
This is where you can change out the nozzle of the ink cartridge.
What is a print head?
This is one of the primary consumable items in a laser printer.
What is a toner cartridge?
The control blade holds the toner at a microscopic distance from the drum. The toner then moves from the control blade to the more positively charged image on the drum.
What is step 4?
Refers to a feature of some laser and inkjet printers which also have a copy machine capabilities.
This port is used to connect to a network.
What is an ethernet cable?
What is a carriage/belt?
This assists in transferring the toner from the imaging drum to the paper.
What is a transfer roller?
The image on the drum is removed and the drum is conditioned for the new image.
What is step 2?