PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

monitor case is a 1000-microfarad capacitor, which holds more than enough electricity to seriously harm you or worse, even when ...

CHAPTER 17 Printers 401 Copyright 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. ...

O nce considered an expensive luxury for any PC, especially for home or small office systems, a printer is now virtually a neces ...

Chapter 17: Printers^403 Eventually, as the personal computer became popular, a need for PC printers was rec- ognized by a numbe ...

(^404) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Dot Matrix Printers The next printer to emerge was the dot matrix printer, which, as disc ...

Inkjet Printers The inkjet printer, which is also known as the bubble jet, was first introduced in 1976, but it took until the l ...

(^406) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide The laser printer, like the Epson printer shown in Figure 17-4, is just beginning to cap- ...

Chapter 17: Printers^407 A Quick Look at Printer Characteristics The terms used to describe the characteristics of a printer are ...

(^408) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide which would roughly translate to 6,600 characters per second. Dot matrix printers can pri ...

Fonts and Typefaces The style and design of a printer’s character set, that is, block, script, or another style, is its fontor t ...

(^410) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide there are 72 points (abbreviated as pts) to an inch. Figure 17-8 shows a comparison of di ...

Chapter 17: Printers^411 Dot Matrix Printers It may be premature to say that dot matrix printers are obsolete, but they have bee ...

(^412) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide codes used to create the letters, numbers, special characters, graphics, print styles, an ...

more of the print data file can be sent from the computer to the printer. This continues until theentirefileistransferred.Aftert ...

(^414) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Resolution graphics in the range of 240 × 216 to 360 × 360dpi. A typical dot matrix print ...

inkjet printer is now virtually everywhere, in classrooms, small businesses, corporate of- fices, and especially in homes. It pr ...

(^416) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide charge. Not all of the droplets are charged, only the ones that are selected by the timin ...

Chapter 17: Printers^417 WordPerfect, a graphics package like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, or a desktop pub- lishing package ...

(^418) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide the source of its instructions. If the buffer fills up, the printer tells the computer to ...

block when it passes over the correct spot on the printed line. As the printhead passes over the exact spot on the print line th ...