COMPUTER SCIENCE

OUTPUT DEVICES

DEVICE USE PORT SPEED (IF QUALITY OF

CONNECTIVITY APPLICABLE) OUTPUT
Monitor To display a screen to provide visual output HDMI, VGA
from a computer, cable box, video camera,
VCR or other video generating device.

Projector that projects an image or moving images onto HDMI, VGA lumens
a surface

Speaker To produce audio output that can be heard by the USB

user when connected to a device.

Printer accepts text and graphic output from a Parallel(LPT1) Dots Per Inch
computer and transfers the information to
paper, usually to standard size sheets of paper

Plotter A plotter is a printer that interprets Serial/COM Port

commands from a computer to make line
drawings on paper with one or more
automated pens. Unlike a regular printer, it
can draw continuous point-to-point lines
directly from vector graphics files or
commands.

Fax machine A fax machine is a device that is used to send and ‘LINE’, ‘TEL’
print pages or images over telephone lines by
digitizing the material with an internal optical
scanner and transmitting the information as
electronic signals.

Touch Screen A touch screen is a computer display screen

Device that when touched by a finger or stylus, it
registers the event and sends it to a controller
for processing.