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The document discusses different types of printers including dot matrix, inkjet, and laser printers. Dot matrix printers form images using tiny pins to hit an ink ribbon and paper, inkjet printers use nozzles to spray tiny droplets of ink onto paper, and laser printers use a photoconductive drum and toner particles to create high resolution images and text. The document compares the advantages and disadvantages of each type of printer such as cost, speed, quality, and noise level.

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Printers

The document discusses different types of printers including dot matrix, inkjet, and laser printers. Dot matrix printers form images using tiny pins to hit an ink ribbon and paper, inkjet printers use nozzles to spray tiny droplets of ink onto paper, and laser printers use a photoconductive drum and toner particles to create high resolution images and text. The document compares the advantages and disadvantages of each type of printer such as cost, speed, quality, and noise level.

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What Is Printer

An external hardware device responsible for taking computer data and generating a hard copy of that data. Printers are one of the most commonly used peripherals and they print text and still images on the paper.

Dot Matrix Printer


The term dot matrix refers to the process of placing dots to form an image. Its speed is usually 30 to 550 characters per second (cps). This is the cheapest and the most noisy printer and has a low print quality. Dot Matrix were 1st introduced by Centronics in 1970.

How Dot-Matrix works?


Forms images one character at a time as the print head moves across the paper. Uses tiny pins to hit an ink ribbon and the paper much as a typewriter does. This printer arranges dots to form characters and all kinds of images. 9 to 24 vertical column pins are contained in a rectangular print head. When print head moves across the paper, pins are activated to form a dotted character image. These printers can produce carbon copies along with the originals.

Advantages/Dis-advatages of DotMatrix Advantages: In-expensive. Low per page cost. Energy efficient. Dis-advantages: Noisy Low resolution Limited fonts flexibility Poor quality graphics output

Ink-Jet Printer

It is a non-impact printer producing a high quality print. A standard Inkjet printer has a resolution of 300dpi. Newer models have further improved dpi. Inkjet printers were introduced in the later half of 1980s and are very popular owing to their extra-ordinary performance.

A typical inkjet receives control info from your printer driver/PC. Either way, rollers advance a page from your paper tray (1) under a sliding printhead/cartridge assembly (2). Then, the printhead stepper motor (3) kicks in, drawing the assembly on a sliding rod (4) to its starting position, usually via a belt (5). The printhead (6) proper is an incredible piece, On some printers, the head and ink cartridge (7) are one unit. The head's microscopic nozzles (8) anywhere from dozens to literally thousandsare outlets for incredibly tiny ink

Inside an Inkjet Printer?


Print head Assembly: Ink Cartridge: Depending on the model & manufacturing of printers, ink cartridge come in various combinations. Print head stepper motor: A stepper motor moves the print head assembly back and forth across the paper. Stabilizer bar The movement of print head is controlled and made precise by a stabilizer bar. Belt A belt is used to attach print head assembly to the stepper motor.

Paper tray/feeder: It enables the user to load the paper into the printer. Rollers: Control the movement of the paper. Control circuitry: control all the mechanical aspects of the operation as well as decode the information sent to the printer from the computer.

Steps: Print head having four ink cartridges moves . Software instructs where to apply dots of ink, which color and what quantity to use. Electrical pulses are sent to the resistors behind each nozzle. Vapor bubbles of ink are formed by resistors and the ink is forced to the paper through nozzles. A matrix of dots forms characters and pictures.

Advantages/ Dis-advantages

Advantages: High resolution output. Energy efficient. Many options to select. Dis-advantages: Expensive. Special paper required for higher resolution output. Time consuming in case of graphics printing.

Laser Printer Laser printers use very advanced technology and produce a high quality output. Laser printers can also produce high quality graphics images. Resolution is 600 to 1200dpi.

PC talks with controller circuitry (1) in your laser printer to queue up and translate printing data. The main actor, however, is the photo conducting drum (2), a specially coated cylinder that receives a positive or negative charge from a charging roller (3). A laser beam (4), switching rapidly on and off and deflected off a rotating mirror (5), scans the charged drum horizontally in precise lines. When the beam flashes on, it reverses the charge of tiny spots on the drum, corresponding to dots that are to be printed black. After the laser scans a line, a stepper motor advances the drum, and the laser repeats the process. Next, the drum's laser-joined portion encounters the developer roller (6), which is coated in charged toner particles from the toner hopper (7), part of the toner cartridge.

Charged toner clings to the discharged areas of the drum, reproducing, in reverse, your images and text. Meanwhile, a belt or roller assembly (8) draws paper inside from the paper tray (9), past a transfer roller or charging wire (10) that applies a charge opposite the toner's to the paper. As the paper sheet meets the drum, the drum-borne toner transfers to paper. A cleaning blade (11) then cleans the drum, and the process continues in a smooth, circular flow. Last, your page, with its imprint of tenuously anchored toner, reaches the fuser (12)a heat roller and a pressure roller. It melts the toner, which contains resins and sometimes wax, onto the page. pages in your out tray.

Steps: Paper is fed and the drum rotates. A laser beam conveys information from the computer to a rotating mirror and thus an image is created on the drum. The charges on the drum are ionized and the toner sticks to the drum. Toner is transferred from drum to paper. Heat is applied to fuse the toner on the paper.

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