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A laser printer is a type of electrophotographic printer that can range from a small, personal desktop model to a large, network printer capable of handling and printing large volumes continuously.

Dot matrix printers are almost nonexistent now because they have been replaced with inkjet or laser printers.

In the cleaning step of laser printing, the drum is conditioned to contain a high electrical charge.

A flat-bed scanner works by using a motor that moves the scanning head across the paper laid on the glass bed of the scanner.

A GDI printer needs more firmware and memory than a PCL or PostScript printer.

A(n) ____ printer creates a printed page by using some mechanism that touches or hits the paper.

____ printers work by placing toner on an electrically charged rotating drum and then depositing the toner on paper as the paper moves through the system at the same speed the drum is turning.

In a laser printer, the laser beam is initiated and directed toward the octagonal mirror called the ____ mirror.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) calls the technology of varying the size of dots found in laser printers ____.

In a laser printer, the beam detect mirror detects the laser beam by reflecting it to a(n) ____.

When you adjust print density with laser printers, you are adjusting the ____ charge on the developing cylinder.

In the ____ step of laser printing, a strong electrical charge draws the toner off the drum onto the paper.

In the ____ step of laser printing, a laser beam discharges a lower charge only to places where toner should go.

____ printers use a type of ink-dispersion printing and don’t normally provide the high-quality resolution of laser printers, but are popular because they are small and can print color inexpensively.

When purchasing an inkjet printer, you should look for the kind that uses ____ separate cartridges.

____ printers use wax-based ink that is heated by heat pins that melt the ink onto paper.

A(n) ____ printer uses solid dyes embedded on different transparent films. As the print head passes over each color film, it heats up, causing the dye to vaporize onto the glossy surface of the paper.

Some scanners have embedded ____ software that can interpret written text so that the text scanned in can be input into a word-processing program such as Microsoft Word.

A ____ scanner pulls a sheet of paper through the scanner mechanism similar to the way a fax machine works.

A printer connected to a computer by way of a port on the computer is called a ____ printer.

To use a shared printer on a remote PC, ____ must be installed.

____ is a language used to communicate how a page is to print and was developed by Adobe Systems.

____ is a printer language that was developed by Hewlett-Packard but is considered a de facto standard in the printing industry.

The ____ component of Windows draws and formats the page and then sends the almost-ready-to-print page to the printer in bitmap form.

An extension magnet brush is a long-handled brush made of nylon fibers that are charged with static electricity and easily attract ____ like a magnet.

The most common type of connector for a scanner intended to be used with a desktop system is a ____ port.

The ____________________ step of laser printing uses heat and pressure to fuse the toner to the paper.

An inkjet printer uses a(n) ____________________ that moves across the paper, creating one line of text with each pass.

A(n) ____________________ printer has a print head that moves across the width of the paper, using pins to print a matrix of dots on the page.

____________________ printers such as the Xerox Phaser 8550 use ink stored in solid blocks, which Xerox calls color sticks.

Manufacturers of high-end printers provide ____________________ kits, which include specific printer components, step-by-step instructions for performing maintenance, and any special tools or equipment you need to do maintenance.