Monday, March 20, 2017

Printer

Printers are Output devices used to prepare permanent Output devices on paper. 
  • Device that prints text and graphics in the same format and shape which is displayed on the screen connected via printer cable or USB cable.
  • Transforms digitally stored documents, graphics, text data on paper/hard copy.
  • Speed of printer is measured in printed pages per minute.
  • Printers can be shared in the LAN, Wireless networks or Ethernets.
  • New types of printers are combined with printing, scanning and fax in a single unit.
Printers can be divided into two main categories :
Impact Printers : In this hammers or pins strike against a ribbon and paper to print the text. This mechanism is known as electro-mechanical mechanism. They are of two types.
 
 
(i) Character Printer
(ii) Line Printer
Character Printer : It prints only one character at a time. It has relatively slower speed. Eg. Of them are Dot matrix printers. 
Line Printer : It prints one complete line at a time. Eg. Of them are Drum printers. 

Non-Impact Printers : There printers use non-Impact technology such as ink-jet or laser technology. There printers provide better quality of O/P at higher speed. These printers are of two types :

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