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How do impact printers create and image on paper?
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By physically striking an ink ribbon against the paper's surface.
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What is the most commonly used impact printer technology?
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Dot matrix
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How do dot matrix printers operate?
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Dot matrix printers use a grid, or matrix of tiny pins also known as printwires to strike an inked printer ribbon and produce images on papers
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The case that holds the printwires is called a _____.
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Printhead
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Dot-matrix printers come in two varieties:_____ and _____
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9 -pin (draft quality)24-pin (letter quality)
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List the four major components of an inkjet printers and each of their jobs.
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-printhead mechanism-support electronics- transfer mechanism to move the printhead back and forth-paper feed component to drag, move, and eject paper
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Inkjet printers eject ink through _______. The heat or pressure used to move the ink is created by _____
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Tiny tubestiny resistors or electroconductive plates at the end of each tube.
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Ink is stored in ______.
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Ink cartridges
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Older printers used __1__ number of cartridges; one for _2__ and one for _3_. Newer printers use _____4________.
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1) two2) black3) cyan, magenta and yellow4) four, six eight, or more cartridges
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The quality of a print image is called the __1___ and is measured in ___2___, which has two values: __3__ and __4___.
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1) print resolution2) dots per inch (dpi) 3) horizontal4) vertical
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600 X 600 dpi is an example of what?
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Resolution
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Printing speed is measured in ______.
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Pages per minute (ppm)
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Modern inkjet printers can print on a variety of media, including ______, ______ and ______.
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Glossy photo paper, optical discs or fabric
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______ type of printers are used to achieve excellent print quality, especially in color, but they are expensive. Documents printed through the ______ process display continuous-tone images, meaning that each pixel dot is a blend of the dye colors.
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Dye- sublimination
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Most print technologies' have _________, which use closely packed, single-color dots to simulate blended colors.
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Dithered images
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