PASE Printer At a Glance

( Dot Matrix Printers)

Precision Chennai
R.balamurugan

Agenda

Introduction
About printers
Types of printers
Installing & Configuring Printers in Win 7
Inside the printer
Live demo

About Printers
A printer is an electromechanical device which converts the
text and graphical documents from electronic form to the
physical form
Peripheral devices which are connected with the computers or
laptops through a cable or wireless to receive input data and
print them on the papers
A wide range of printers are available with a variety of features
ranging from printing black and white text documents to high
quality colour graphic images

Types of Printers
Impact Printer use a device to strike an inked ribbon
pressing ink from the ribbon onto the paper
(Dot matrix Printer 80 9 Pin & 132 Column 24 Pin)
Non-impact printer is a type of printer that does not
operate by striking a head against a ribbon. For
example, Laserjet and Inkjet printers

Evaluating Printers
Image Quality Print resolution (Dot Per Inch )
DPI 300 600
Speed Pages per minutes (PPM) or Characters per
second) 500 CPS

Dot matrix Printer working Process

Dot matrix printer is a common type of impact
printer
A dot matrix printers print head contains a cluster of
pins. The printer can push the pins out to form
patterns in rapid sequence
The pins press an inked ribbon against the paper
creating an image

Performance
Lower resolution - 9 Pins
Higher resolution - 24 Pins

9-Pin Dot Matrix Printer

Narrow carriage 9-pin SIDM
(Serial impact dot matrix )
High 357 CPS print speed at 12CPI
10,000 power on hour MTBF
(Mean Time Between Failure )

24-Pin Dot Matrix Printer

Narrow Carriage
Speed: up to 300cps (10cpi)
Prints up to 4-part forms

Dot Matrix Printer Spares & Process

Print head
Head cable
Carriage unit
Ribbon Drive Assembly
Belt drive pulley
Carriage motor
PF motor
Main board
Power Supply (SMPS)

Printer Ports
USB,Parallel and Serial ports
The parallel port consists of a 25-pin male plug
Parallel ports have some disadvantages
The data transfer rate is only 150 KB per second
The parallel port uses system resources while printing
Parallel cables have a maximum effective length of 10 feet

Print Head Demo

DMP Paper Type

Paper Size

Comparison of Printer Types

Troubleshooting Dot-Matrix Printers

Installing & Configuring Printers in

Win 7

Inside the printer

Use Proper Tool Kit

Screwdriver set

Cutting player

Multimeter

Live demo