Printers
Printer capabilities and characteristics
Inkjet printers
Laser printers
virtual printers
100

This is a printer that is able to print objects in 3rd dimensional form

What is a 3-D printer

100

This is used by laser printers to create an image


What is an image drum

100

These are used to spray ink onto a page

What is ink cartridges 

100

This is something that melts the toners onto the paper and is made up of hot rollers 

What is fuser assembly 

100

This was supposed to be the alternative to the PDF which was introduced by Microsoft

What is Print to XPS

200

This is a printer that uses an electrostatic digital printing process by using a laser back and forth on a negatively charged cylinder 

What is a Laser printer

200

These are the colors of ink used in color printing

What is CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key)

200

These are tiny holes the print head 

What is nozzles 

200

This is covered in light sensitive insulating material 

What is Imaging drum 

200

This is something that could print a file without opening the original document 

What is print to file 

300

This is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by heating the paper and is commonly used by stores for their receipts 

What is a Thermal printer

300

This is the rate at which the printer can output pages

What is PPM

300

This helps turn the page over to the other side so it can be printed on 

What is a duplexing assembly 

300

This is the primary consumable used by the laser printer 

What is toner cartridges 

300

This allows you to connect your printer to the web and allows you to send print jobs from anywhere that has internet access

What is google cloud

400

This type of printer recreates digital images on the paper by propelling droplets of ink onto the paper

What is an Inkjet Printer

400

This refers to the quality of the image resolution

What is DPI

400

The belt moves this back and forth across the paper to spray ink on the page while the rollers pull the paper into the feeder

What is a Carriage

400

This helps in transferring the toner from the image drum to the paper

What is a transfer roller 

400

This is a type of file format you can put on your document to make it harder for others to easily copy it

What is print to image

500

This is a printer that physically places the ink onto the paper and are typically loud 

What is a Impact printer

500

This is the length of time at which the printer should work before failure

What is MTBF

500

These are located at the back of the nozzles and a charge is caused to make them vibrate and the vibration controls the flow of the ink onto the paper  

What is Piezoelectric crystals  

500

This moves the sheet of paper out the cassette or tray 

What is pickup rollers 

500

This  print software usually sends jobs to either files or transmits the information to a destination to the cloud

What is Virtual printing