Non-Impact

Printers
By Ann Maria Joseph 200969 and
Sneha Sabu 200439
Printer
Printers are the most used and popular output devices. They provide
information in a permanent readable from. They produce printed
output of results, programs and data. Prints text or image on paper
called hard copy. The printing speed of a printer is measured in pages
per minute (ppm).Printer resolution is often measured in dots per
inch (dpi)
 • It is a type of printer that produces characters and
graphics without striking the material. Printing is
done by depositing Ink in any form.
Non-Impact • Non-impact printers are generally much quieter.
Printers They are less likely to need maintenance or repairs
than earlier impact printers.
Examples of Impact
Printers
 • Laser stands for Light Amplification by Simulated Emission
of Radiation. A laser printer is the fastest and high-quality
non-impact printer. It works like a photocopier. The laser
printer transfers the image of output on paper using LASER
technology and toner. Toner is an ink powder. It is used in
laser printers and photocopiers also the laser printer has a
special drum inside it. first the image of output is created on
the drum, and then it is transferred from drum to paper. The
Laser Printer image of output is created on the drum by throwing
magnetic ink powder in the form of microscopic dots. These
dots can be from 300 dpi to 1200 dpi (dpi means dots per inch
and these dots refers to microscopic dots).
• The Laser printer can print both text and graphics in very
high-quality resolution. Laser printer prints one page at a
time. The laser printers are, therefore also called page
printers.
 • Inkjet printers are character printers that form characters and images by spraying
small drops of ink on a paper. The print head of an inkjet printer contains up to 64 tiny
nozzles The printer can heat up the nozzles selectively in a few microseconds by an
integrated circuit resistor When the resistor heats up, the ink near it vaporizes and
ejects through the nozzle, making a dot on the paper placed in front of the print head
To print a character, the printer selectively heats the appropriate set of nozzles as the
print head moves horizontally, they form characters by very tiny ink dots. A high-
resolution inkjet printer has as many as 64 nozzles within a height of 7 mm, providing

INKJET print resolution of around 360 dots per inch Since inkjet printers produce printed
output as patterns of tiny dots, they can print any shape of characters that a program
can describe This allows the printer to print many special characters, different sizes of

PRINTER •
print, and graphics such as charts and graphs.
Inkjet printers are both monochrome and color. A monochrome inkjet printer uses a
single cartridge with black ink, whereas a color inkjet printer uses two ink cartridges
black and tri-color. The tri-color cartridge contains red, blue, and green colors in a
package that can mix appropriate amount of these colors with black from the other
cartridge to get any desired color. Hence, inkjet printers can produce multi-colored
and photo-quality output. Today, most inkjet printers are color printers that use four
inks packaged in separate cartridges: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black. The four
"CMYK" cartridges are individually replaced, but beware single CMY cartridges,
because when any one color runs out, the entire cartridge must be replaced.
 • The printer that produces images by pushing
electrically heated pins against special heat – sensitive
paper, is known as thermal printer. This type of printer
uses a special heat sensitive paper. These papers have a
special heat sensitive coating. When a spot on the
special paper is heated, it becomes dark. A character is
THERMAL printed with a matrix of dots. The heating element is
heated by electric current. We can also say the heat
PRINTER sensitive paper is chemically treated paper. In this type
of printer neither the ink nor the ribbon in involved. To
print a character the printing head is moved first to the
correct character position. Then the heating elements
of desired character are turned on. After a short time,
they are turned off. There after the print head is moved
to the next character.
Plotter
A plotter is like the inkjet printer, but it is good for printing
something on a bigger size paper rather than the regular one.
These are mainly used for laying out and printing the
engineering drawings such as building plans, drawing of
mechanical components and assembly drawings, and so on. It is
capable of printing black and white as well as colour prints.
The two types of plotter are drum and flat-bed plotter.
 • It consists of a drum, one or more penholders mounted perpendicular
to the drum's surface, and a graph-plotting software. The drum
rotates in both clockwise and anti-clockwise directions to produce
vertical motion. The pen(s)clamped in the holder(s) moves left to right
or right to left to produce horizontal motion. The graph-plotting
software controls movements of the drum and pen(s). Hence, under
software control, the drum and pen(s) moves simultaneously to draw
designs and graphs on a sheet placed over the drum. The plotter can
Drum Plotter also annotate a designer graph so drawn by drawing characters of
various sizes with the pen. Since each pen is program selectable, user
can use the plotter to produce multi-colored designs by mounting
pens having ink of different colors in different holders. The plotter was
the first output device to print graphics and large engineering
drawings. Using different colored pens, it could draw in color long
before color inkjet printers became viable.
• The First Drum Plotter
In 1959, the Cal Comp Model 565 was the world's first drum plotter.
 • It consists of a rectangular flatbed table, one or more penholders mounted
perpendicular to the table's surface, and a graph-plotting software It plots
a design or graph on a sheet of paper spread fixed over the table. Normally,
the paper does not move and the pen holding mechanism provides all
types of motions necessary to draw complex designs and graphs. Hence,
under software control, the pen(s) move in the required manner to draw
designs and graphs on the sheet placed on the flatbed table. The plotter
can also annotate a design or graph so drawn by drawing characters of
various sizes with the pen. Provision is also there to mount more than one

Flatbed Plotter pen in the pen(s)holding mechanism. Since each pen is program selectable,
a user can use the plotter to produce multi-colored designs by mounting
pens having ink of different colors in different holders. The plot size is
restricted by the area of the bed Some are as small as A4 size (8"X11"
page), while some very large beds used in the design of cars, ships,
aircrafts, buildings, highways, etc. are up to 20 ft. by 50 ft Some plotters
also etch on plastic or metal.
• An Early Flatbed Plotter
In the 1970s, this Cal Comp Model 738 large-format, flatbed plotter was an
offline device. Data was delivered to it via magnetic tape.
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