Types of Printers
This printer is easy to use, usually less expensive than a laser printer, but its nozzles are prone to clogging up and ink cartridges can be expensive.
What is Inkjet printer?
This is the term for a specific tone of blue, mainly used for printing.
What is Cyan?
This is the central part of a laser printer. Its a medal cylinder coated with light sensitive material.
What is the Imaging drum?
This is the material used to create 3D objects.
What is Filament?
This and paper are the primary consumable items in an inkjet printer. They are designed for specific makes and models of inkjet printers.
Hint: They dispense color
What is a ink cartridge?
This printer is a fast and high quality printer with a low cost per page. The start up cost is very high and toner cartridges are most likely to be expensive.
What is a laser printer?
This is the term for a specific tone of red, mainly used for printing.
What is Magenta?
The paper passes through it, which is made of hot rollers that melt the toner onto the paper.
What is the Fuser assembly?
This takes the Filament from a feed tube and pulls it down through the heated nozzle.
What is the Feeder?
This pulls paper in from the feeder.
What is a Roller?
This printer works for a long time, because there are not a lot of moving parts. Its operation is quiet and there is no expense for ink or toner. It doesn't have any color options and is low quality.
What is a thermal printer?
These are the main three colors used for color printing?
Cyan, Magenta and Yellow.
This assists in transferring the toner from the Imaging drum to the paper.
What is the Transfer roller?
When the filament is heated to the correct temperature, it is extruded from this.
What is hotend nozzle?
This may hold blank paper in a tray or cassette. Some inkjet printers are also copiers. They may have an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF). The ADF holds documents which are fed page by page onto the scanner bed for copying.
What is a Feeder?
This printer creates three-dimensional objects.
What is a 3D-Printer?
Its the full definition for PPM.
What is pages per minute?
These may be located in multiple areas of the printer to move the paper through the different processes.
What are pickup rollers?
This is one of several bars on which the hotend nozzle travels to dispense filament. They are vertical or horizontal so that the hotend nozzle can be located within a specified location in a 3D environment to "print" the object.
What is an Axis?
Some inkjet printers can print on both sides of a page. This is required, which turns a printed page over and feeds it back through the printer to be printed on the other side.
What is a duplexing assembly?
This printer doesn't send a print job to a printer within your local network. Its transmitted to a cloud where it can be printed from.
What is virtual printing?
This is how the quality of the printing is measured.
What is dots per inch(dpi)?
This turns the page to the other side so it can be printed on both sides.
What is Dublexing Assembly?
This is the platform onto which the heated filament will form the object.
What is the print bed?
This moves the carriage back and forth across the paper as the ink is sprayed on it.
What is the carriage/belt?