Testout It Chapter 7 Test Study Guide

Front 1

Which printer type is ideal for printing carbon-copy documents?

Back 1

Dot matrix printers due to their impact.

Front 2

What is a common application for a thermal printer?

Back 2

Thermal printers use special paper that reacts to heat. It uses heat to transfer an image from the printer onto this paper. Then the feed assembly takes the thermal paper off the roll and sends it through the printer and then outside the paper. Many of the older fax machines and many of the lower end fax machines that we buy today still use thermal technology. Thermal printers are commonly used to print out a high quality image.

Front 3

Why does a laser printer use heat in the printing process?

Back 3

A heat roller is lubricated to ensure that enough heat will be evenly applied to transfer the next image printed. Then an electrostatic erase lamp neutralizes the electrical charges that remain on the drum from the previous printed image.

Front 4

What are the two most common printer types?

Back 4

Laser and inkjet printers.

Front 5

In the laser printing process, how does the primary corona prepare the photosensitive drum for writing?

Back 5

The primary corona prepares the photosensitive drum for writing by causing it it to receive a negative electrostatic charge. Depending on the printer, the primary corona will be wires or rollers.

Front 6

What is the function of the print driver?

Back 6

The print driver is the software that allows the printer to communicate with the print device. Printer drivers provide the following support functions; translates data into a recognizable form for the given printer, manage graphics via graphics drivers, converting graphics into the appropriate printer commands, and allows management of the print job by displaying print and printer properties in the operating system.

Front 7

What is the function of the print queue?

Back 7

The print queue is a portion of the hard drive where print jobs are stored before going to the print device.

Front 8

Which printing component takes the print job from the queue and sends it to the print device?

Back 8

Spooler.

Front 9

What are three printer languages that printers commonly understand?

Back 9

Printer Command Language (PCL) made by Hewlett-Packard, PostScript made by Adobe, and PDF which is a successor to PostScript.

Front 10

Which virtual printing option allows you to create an .xps file?

Back 10

Print to XPS allows you to create .xps files using any program that you can print from in Windows.

Front 11

Which printing option allows you to convert a Word document into a .jpg file?

Back 11

Print to image is the option that allows you to convert a Word document into a .jpg file.

Front 12

What is the benefit of network printing?

Back 12

The benefit of network printing is that say a coworker or subordinate does not show up to work one day, and their computer served as a host of the printer for the workstation. No one could print from the printer device. Instead, using network printing allows everyone to print from this device regardless if a coworker shows up to work because it is typically always left on all of the time.

Front 13

When sharing a printer, why might you need to load additional drivers for the printer?

Back 13

Because if your printer has an Ethernet jack and is located near your router, you can plug the printer into your router and install the printer drivers on each of your computer.

Front 14

Which type of device can act as a print server?

Back 14

There are many different kinds of print servers. For example, the operating system of a printer can function as a print server presuming the appropriate operating system had been installed. It would receive the jobs from the other clients, save them locally in a directory on the hard drive, and then spools them off to the printer one at a time.

Front 15

What is an advantage of having a printer with a built-in print server and network interface?

Back 15

The advantage is that you can queue the print jobs, give certain tasks a priority and then send them through.

Front 16

When would you use a TCP/IP port when configuring a printer object?

Back 16

When a printer is not connected to a Windows workstation.

Front 17

Which services allow you to print wirelessly to a remote printer?

Back 17

Bonjour networking technology, AirPrint and Google Cloud Print. If the printer doesn’t have a network connection, you could use an USB port to connect the printer to another device.

Front 18

Why would you recommend a dye sublimation printer?

Back 18

When print jobs are detailed photographic reproductions because dye sublimation printers produce images y heating a colored dye, transferring the dye in gas form to paper where the dye cools and solidifies.

Front 19

Which of the following would be a good reason to not recommend a solid ink printer?

Back 19

The user has a surplus of toner cartridges and would like a printer that can be used with these.

Front 20

Which of the following printers would produce the highest print quality? (300 DPI, 24-pin, 18-pin, or 600 DPI)

Back 20

600 DPI because the higher the DPI, the higher the print quality.

Front 21

Which type of printer heats the ink in its print head to print?

Back 21

Inkjet (or bubble jet) because the bubble jet inkjet printer applies heat to the ink and squirts it through tiny nozzles in the print head and onto the paper.

Front 22

You have been asked to recommend a printer that will be used in a travel agency. The printer will be used to print airline tickets. Each ticket has four pages (multi-part, carbon-based forms), and the same information must show up on all four pages with a single pass of the printer.

Which printer type would you recommend?

Back 22

Impact because dot matrix (impact) printers strike the image onto the paper, they are good printers to use when carbon-copy documents are being printed.

Front 23

Which type of printer uses a drum, plastic toner, and fuser to create a printed page?

Back 23

Laser because laser printers use a laser to charge a metal drone. Drum picks up plastic toner, and the toner is then used onto the paper (using rollers and heat).

Front 24

Which type of printer uses lasers and electrical charges to transfer images to paper?

Back 24

Laser printers because laser printers use lasers and electrical charges to transfer images to paper.

Front 25

Which component in a laser printer prepares the photosensitive drum for writing by causing it to receive a negative electrostatic charge?

Back 25

Primary corona (also called the main corona or the charge corona) prepares the photosensitive drum for writing by causing it to receive a negative electrostatic charge.

Front 26

Which component in a laser printer charges the paper to attract toner?

Back 26

Transfer roller because the transfer roller charges the paper to attract the toner.

Front 27

Which component in a laser printer applies toner to the drum, causing the toner to stick to the charged areas on the drum?

Back 27

Developing roller because it applies toner to the drum.

Front 28

List three printer languages.

Back 28

PC, escape codes, and PostScript. Escape codes were used by early printers.

Front 29

You've just set up a color laser printer on a customer's Windows workstation. You've connected it to the workstation using a USB cable and have loaded the appropriate drivers.

What two steps should you do next?

Back 29

You need to configure device-specific settings and then print a test page to verify that the printer is working properly next.

Front 30

You have just set up a new laser printer for the company president on her Windows workstation. You have installed the printer and the drivers, what should you do next?

Back 30

After installing her printer, you need to edit the printer properties to configure device-specific settings.

Front 31

What allows a computer to communicate with a printer?

Back 31

Print driver because it is the software that allows the computer to communicate with the printer.

Front 32

What virtual printing option allows you to convert a Word document into a .pg file?

Back 32

Print to Image because it allows you to print any document into an image file that is independent of the application you use to view them.

Front 33

Which of the following methods can be used to connect a printer to a network?

Back 33

Two methods are connecting your printer to an external print server device that is connected to the network, and plugging an ethernet cable into the network port in the printer.

Front 34

What is an advantage of connecting a printer too a network?

Back 34

Multiple users can print to the same printer.

Front 35

What connector is most commonly used to connect printers to desktop PC systems?

Back 35

USB.

Front 36

If a printer is connected directly to a Windows workstation, what can be done to allow other workstations on the same network to send print jobs to this printer?

Back 36

Configure the printer to be a shared printer.

Front 37

If a printer is not Wi-Fi capable, how can it be set up t provide the most reliable wireless printer?

Back 37

If the printer is Ethernet capable (meaning it has an Ethernet port), it can be connected to the network through a wireless router.

Front 38

What are the steps for the laser printing process?

Back 38

Step one, processing. Step two, charging. Step 3, write the image with the laser. Step four, add negatively charged toner to the imaging drum. Step five, transferring. Step six, fusing.

Front 39

What is step number one in the laser printing process?

Back 39

Processing, it is when it builds the entire page in memory.

Front 40

What is step number two in the laser printing process?

Back 40

Charging, it is when it prepares the drum with a negative electrostatic charge.

Front 41

What is step number three in the laser printing process?

Back 41

Exposing, it is when it writes the image with the laser.

Front 42

What is step number four in the laser printing process?

Back 42

Developing, it is when it adds a negatively-charged toner to the imaging drum.

Front 43

What is step number five in the laser printing process?

Back 43

Transferring, it is when it moves the toner from the drum to the paper.

Front 44

What is step number six in the laser printing process?

Back 44

Fusing, heat and pressure.