| 1. List the six steps used by a laser printer to print a page. |
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| 2. Which document exhibits better quality, one printed with 600 dpi or one printed with 1200 dpi? Why? |
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| 3. What type port will a desktop scanner most likely use? |
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| 4. What two types of scanning technologies does a scanner use? |
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| 5. What are two possible settings in CMOS for parallel port mode? |
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| 6. During the laser printing process, what determines when the toner sticks to the drum and when it does not stick to the drum? |
The entire drum is charged to a -600v during the conditioning phase then in the writing phase the laser discharges a lower charge to where the toner should go. |
| 7. Why is it less expensive to maintain an inkjet printer that has a black ink cartridge than one that does not? |
Color ink is more expensive so in a single cartridge printer it needs to use more in to make black by combing all 3 colors where the black cartridge is less expensive and contains only black ink. |
| 8. What technology makes an inkjet printer a photo-quality printer? |
Hewlett-Packard call it PhotoREtII color tech. |
| 9. What should you do if an inkjet printer prints with missing dots or lines on the page? |
Clean the inkjet nozzles |
| 10. What can you do to help a dot-matrix printer last longer? |
Keep it as cool as possible to prevent over heating also don’t use it to print more than 50 to 75 pages with out cool down time |
| 11. List two possible ways to improve printing speed. |
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| 12. When a laser printer is short on memory, what is a possible symptom of this problem? |
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| 13. What two Windows components are used to share resources on a network and access those shared resources? |
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| 14. How do you share a local printer with others in the workgroup? |
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| 15. What are two ways to install a printer that is being shared by another computer on the network? |
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| 16. What company developed PostScript? PCL? |
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| 17. When you are isolating a printer problem, what are the four major possible sources of the problem? |
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| 18. How can you eliminate the printer as the source of a printing problem? |
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| 19. How can you be sure that a printer cable is not the source of a printer problem? |
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| 20. Why is it important not to remove ink cartridges from an inkjet printer and leave the cartridges outside the printer for an extended period of time? |
Because the ink will dry. |