Exam 27: Printers and Multifunction Devices

In laser printers, what component applies a positive charge to the paper, drawing the negatively charged toner particles to the paper?

Ink is stored in special small containers called ______________.

How many power supply units are in a laser printer?

A laser printer's heated roller has a nonstick coating to prevent the ______________ from sticking to it.

What are the seven steps involved in printing from a laser printer?

Laser printers usually use a laser as the light source because of their _______________.

A laser printer's ______________ exposes the entire surface of the photosensitive drum to light, causing any electrical charge present in the particles to bleed into the grounded drum.

______________ printers use a grid of tiny pins, also known as printwires, to strike an inked printer ribbon and produce images on paper.

The case holds the printwires is called a(n) _______________.

What kind of chip is used by a laser printer to translate the raster image sent to the printer into commands for the laser?

In a laser printer, what must be done to the drum to make it receptive to new images?

What Control Panel applet is used to manage printers and faxes in Windows 7?

Which type of printer creates an image on paper by physically striking an ink ribbon against the paper's surface?

What should be added to a laser printer to resolve a memory overflow problem?

Describe the exposing phase of the laser printing process.

In thermal wax transfer printers, the thermal ______________ passes over the film ribbon and melts the wax onto the paper.

Every particle on a laser printer's drum that is hit by the laser will release most of its ______________ charge into the drum.

Most laser printers have a special ______________ filter that needs to be vacuumed or replaced periodically.

Toner particles are composed mostly of _______________, which allows them to be melted to the page.

What should you do if your dot-matrix printer output is covered with dots and small smudges?