Printers

What are printer drivers usually specific to?

• The operating system and printer they will work with
• The Thermal printer and a dell computer 
• The heart of an operating system 
• PCIe express card slots so memory can be given or increased in the slot

If a drive is built for Windows XP will probably not work on Windows Vista

• True
• False

What is a Driver 

• It is a piece of software that allows the printer to communicate with the operating system.
• Impact printer type that uses a grid of dots to form the characters on the printed page
• Extended Capabilities Port; bi-directional interface capable of providing up to 2.5MBps of bandwidth through the use of direct memory access.
• Output device that used some type of firing pin powered characters striking an inked ribbon to place images on the printed page

Thermal Printers are used in places that tend to need to make a second copy of files because they don't have the proper computer that they can trust with data

• True 
• False

Where are toner cartridges used in?

• Thermal Printer
• Laser Printer
• Impact Printer
• Inkjet Printer

What are the six steps in the Laser printer process?

• use, clean, use,recycle
• clean, change slot, put back, and then use once more, after doing so recycle it 
• Cleaning, Conditioning, Writing, Developing, Transferring, and Fusing

What printer is most popular and why?

• Laser printer because its a life or death type printer fast and clean to a point but takes time to clean
• Impact printer because every time you print it makes this striking like impact
• Thermal printer because of its price and the ability to apply heat pressure for permanent print
• Inkjet printer because of price and the ability to print color

What are two major types of impact printers?

• Football and Track
• Passive Matrix and Dock Station
• Dot Matrix and Character Impact

Thermal Printers are used in grocery stores 

• True
• False

As a printer technician you will need to understand the differences between each type

• True
• False