Course Instructor : Dr. Shabana Bibi Department of Biosciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad. Pakistan PRINTER AND ITS TYPES • The printer is a most commonly used output device. • It is used to producing the hard copy output. • It prints characters, symbols & graphics on the paper. • Printer can be categorised according to the technology used in printer, speed, and approach of printing, colors, language & the quality of printing. • Mainly printer can be classified in two types: • Impact printer • Non impact printer IMPACT PRINTER • It works on the same mechanism of type-writer. • It forms a character or image by striking mechanism such as hammer or wheel against to ink ribbon, leaving an image on paper. • It is oldest technology and still is in used. • It can capable to print single character or line at the same time. • Commonly types of impact printers are dot matrix, daisy wheel, chain, drum printer. CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPACT PRINTER • Physical contact with paper to produce output. • Low cost • Very noisy • Very slow in printing • Low quality print out • Stand with dusty or extreme environment NON IMPACT PRINTER • Non impact printer forms characters & images on paper without actually striking the paper. • Paper & print head come in contact & hence the text or image is formed. • Ink jet & laser printer are example of non impact printer. CHARACTERISTICS OF NON IMPACT PRINTER • Faster than impact printer. • Ability to change type face automatically. • High quality output. • Support transparency. • More expensive than impact printer. • Less maintenance than impact printer. IMPACT PRINTERS AND ITS TYPES • Dot matrix printer • DAISY WHEEL PRINTER • DRUM PRINTER • CHANIN PRINTER DOT MATRIX PRINTER • Character printer. • Capable to print single character at the same time. • Forms characters & images as a pattern of dots. • Contains a print head which moves horizontally across paper. • Uses 5 × 7 matrix to form a character. • Print by hammering the pins on inked ribbon to leave ink impressions on the paper. • Able to print 30 to 600 characters per second. DOT MATRIX PRINTER • ADVANTAGES: • Low cost & easily available. • Cheap in cost. • Can make carbon copy of print out. • Low maintenance cost. • Work with any type of environment. • DISADVANTAGES: • Slow in speed. • Very noisy. • Cannot work perfectly in graphics. DAISY WHEEL PRINTER • Character printer. • Able to print a single character at the same time. • Contain a metal wheel on which the characters & numbers are raised on the each petal. • The wheel is rotated very fast when the desired characters arrives at correct position a print hammer strike to produce output. • Different type of font face can be used by replacing the daisy wheel. • Able to print bold letter by striking on specific characters twice or thrice. • Capable to print 10 to 50 characters per second DAISY WHEEL PRINTER • ADVANTAGES: • Low cost. • Can make carbon copy of print out. • Low maintenance cost. • Printing quality is similar to a type writer. • Able to print bold characters. • Allows using different font-face in same document. • DISADVANTAGES: • Very slow in speed. • Very noisy. • Cannot print graphics. DRUM PRINTER • It’s a line printer. • Able to print a line at the same time. • Consist of a solid cylindrical drum with characters embossed on it in circular band. • Each band consists of character set which contains 96 characters. • Drum rotates fastly when desired characters arrives an appropriate hammer strike on ribbon & character is print on paper. • Capable to print 300 to 2000 lines per minute. DRUM PRINTER • ADVANTAGES: • Low cost than non impact printer. • Can make carbon copy of print out. • Low maintenance cost. • Faster than other impact printer. • Printing quality is similar to a type writer. • DISADVANTAGES: • Very slow in speed. • Very noisy. • Large & heavy. • Cannot print graphics. • Only prints predefined set of characters. CHAIN PRINTER • It’s a line printer. • Able to print a line at the same time. • Consist of a metallic chain on which all characters of character set are embossed. • Character set contains 48, 64 or 96 characters. • Characters are embossed several times. • Chain rotates at high speed when the desired characters in correct position the hammer strikes & the characters are print on paper. • Capable to print 400 to 2500 lines per minutes. CHAIN PRINTER • ADVANTAGES: • Low cost than non impact printer. • Can make carbon copy of print out. • Chain can be easily changed. • Allowed to print different type font. • Printing quality is similar to a type writer. • DISADVANTAGES: • Slower than non impact printer. • Very noisy. • Large & heavy. • Cannot print graphics. • Only prints predefined set of characters. NON-IMPACT PRINTERS • INK-JET PRINTER • LASER PRINTER INK-JET PRINTER • It’s non-impact printer. • It’s a character printer. • Forms characters and all kinds of images by spraying drops of ink on to the paper. • Print head contains 64 tiny nozzles. • To print a character the printer the printer selectively heats the appropriate set of nozzle as the print head moves horizontally. • Inkjet printer can either colour or monochrome. • Capable to print 30 to 400 characters per minutes. INK-JET PRINTER • ADVANTAGES: • High quality output. • Silent during the operation. • Able to print graphics. • Able to print any characters & graphics. • Able to generate color & monochrome output. • DISADVANTAGES: • Slower than dot matrix printer. • Cannot make carbon copy of print out. • Expensive than impact printer. LASER PRINTER • It’s non-impact printer. • It’s a page printer. • Three main components laser beam, a multi-sided mirror, a photoconductive drum & toner. • To print page laser beam is focused on drum by spinning multisided mirror. • Drum is electric charged. • Toner which is composed of oppositely charged ink particles, stick to the drum. • Then toner focused on the paper with heat & pressure to generate output. • Low speed laser printer can print 4 to 12 page per minute while high speed laser printer Capable to print 500 to 1000 pages per minutes. LASER PRINTER • ADVANTAGES: • High quality output. • Very faster in speed. • Silent during the operation. • Able to print graphics. • Able to print any characters & graphics. • Able to generate colour & monochrome output. • DISADVANTAGES: • Very expensive. • Cannot make carbon copy of print out. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMPACT & NON-IMPACT PRINTER Impact printer Non impact printer Printing character by striking hammer Printing characters or graphics by spraying against ink ribbon to produce output ink on paper.
Slow in speed Faster than impact printer
Work with any environment Can’t work with all environment Less expensive than non impact printer More expensive than impact printer
Noisy during printing Silent during printing
Able to produced carbon copy output Cant able to produced carbon copy output
e.g.: daisy wheel, drum, chain, dot matrix e.g.: inkjet, laser PLOTTER • Plotter is an output device which is capable to producing hardcopy output of graphics. • Used to producing wide format printing. • It is an ideal output device for architects, engineers, city planners and other who need to generate hardcopy output of widely varying in sizes. • Woks on the same mechanism of human holding pen & moving on paper. • Contains multiple pens & pencil which can be easily changed out in order to create drawing of different colors. • Normally generate output very slowly. • Mainly two types of plotters are used: o Drum plotter o Flatbed DRUM PLOTTER • In the case design has to be made is placed over a drum. • It consist one or more than penholders which are mounted to the drum surface. • The drum plotter both the paper and the pen move. • The paper is contained on two rollers and passes over a drum. • The pen is driven along fixed arm set across the length of the drum. • It is especially useful for plotting continuous line graph. • The accuracy of the drum type depends on the paper transport mechanism, which in turn is dependent on the width of the paper and it can also produce larger drawings. FLATBED PLOTTER • The Flatbed Plotter is generally more expensive and can produce very detailed and accurate drawings. • The paper is mounted on a stationary flatbed. • The pen is mounted on a moveable arm. • Colour drawing can be produced by some plotters through interchangeable pens. • Able to draw output in small size as A4 size or can able to generate very large size can be up to 20ft by 50ft. • Specially used in the design of cars, ships, aircrafts, buildings, highways etc. SPEAKER • The speaker is output device which is connected to computer’s soundcard. • The speaker output the sound generated by the sound card. • Audio data is generated by computer is send to audio card which is located inside extension slot. • It can translate data into audio signal which are sending to speaker. • The speaker can able to produced series of different tones.
