Brother IMPACT DOT MATRIX PIRNTER User Manual

1 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices 6. PRINTERS This laboratory work presents the main types of printers, the general structu

10 Printers cient as the techniques offered by the laser technology. Moreover, the lifetime of these printers is shorter than that of printers using

11 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices The optical mixing of colors can be performed in one of two ways. One pigment of a certain color can

12 Printers On most color inkjet printers, the speed of color printing is much slower than that of monochrome printing. This is because, many times

13 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices ly, most inkjet printers require using a special coated or glossy paper to achieve photographic-qualit

14 Printers rately for each primary color. After placing the last color (black) on the drum, the final image is transferred onto the paper. Single-pa

15 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices stance, even if a particular image needs none of the pigments, the corresponding ribbon seg-ment is st

16 Printers Table 6.1. ASCII codes of control characters and their meaning. Hex Code Control Code Abbreviation Meaning 00 Ctrl-@ NUL Null 01

17 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices ers have emulation modes of the Esc/P2 command set. Table 6.2 contains command examples from the Epson

18 Printers A newer version of the language is PostScript Extreme. This version is intended for printing systems with very high performance, such a

19 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices PCL 5 has been developed for complex desktop publishing, office, and graphic design appli-cations. The

2 Printers C. Based on to the Printing Speed According to this criterion, there are the following categories of printers: Serial printers, which

20 Printers Figure 6.13. Illustration of proportional and monospace fonts. Font management commands control the downloading and manipulatio

21 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices of the sequences are the same. In the new sequence, all the letters, except the termination character

22 Printers by calling the SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryProperty function. The parameters of this function are the following: the handle returned by th

23 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices 6.8.5. Call the function written for Application 6.8.4 to determine whether the HP DeskJet 600 print

24 Printers [3] Hewlett-Packard Corp., “HP DeskJet 600/800 Series Printers, Software Developer’s PCL Guide”, 1997, http://lprng.sourceforge.net/DIST

3 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices The data prepared for printing are transferred into one of several accumulators. These are high-capac

4 Printers In order to guide the droplets, they are charged electrostatically with electrodes placed in the area of droplet separation. Since the i

5 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices chamber. Each nozzle’s chamber has a flexible casing that can be deformed with a piezoelectric crystal

6 Printers and cooling cycles performed rapidly. The cooling process of the ink causes a delay, which reduces to a certain extent the printing speed.

7 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices (Figure 6.7). The multi-layer actuator consists of several thousands of very thin piezoelectric threads

8 Printers latent image is then developed by covering it with toner, is transferred onto the paper and is fixed. Figure 6.8 illustrates the main co

9 Input/Output Systems and Peripheral Devices Figure 6.9. Laser beam guidance in an electro-photographic printer ( HowStuffWorks Inc., 2001). For