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PRINTERS
A printer is an output device that prints characters, symbols, and perhaps graphics
on paper. The printed output is generally referred to as hardcopy because it is in
relatively permanent form. Softcopy refers to temporary images such as those
displayed on a monitor. Printers are categorized according to whether or not the
image produced is formed by physical contact of the print mechanism with the paper.
Impact printers have contact; non impact printers do not.
In addition, a few modern printers can directly interface to electronic media such as
memory sticks or memory cards, or to image capture devices such as digital
cameras, scanners; some printers are combined with a scanners and/or fax
machines in a single unit. Printers that include non-printing features are sometimes
called Multifunction Printers (MFP), Multi-Function Devices (MFD), or All-In-One
(AIO) printers.
Printers are routinely classified by the underlying print technology they employ;
numerous such technologies have been developed over the years.
The choice of print engine has a substantial effect on what jobs a printer is suitable
for, as different technologies are capable of different levels of image/text quality, print
speed, low cost, noise; in addition, some technologies are inappropriate for certain
types of physical media.
• Impact printers are dying out; • Two types of non impact printers
however, you may still come in often used with microcomputers
contact with a dot-matrix printer are laser printers and ink-jet
printers.
.
• They are slow and creates lots of • They print very fast and make less
noise pollution. noise pollution.
• They can create several copies at • They can create only one copy at
a time without using carbon a time.
papers.