Output Devices

What are output devices?

• An output device is any device used to send data from a

computer to another device or user. Output devices allow
computers to communicate with users and with other
devices. 
 Types of Output devices

• Hard copy
• Softcopy
 Hardcopy

• Hard copy is any information that is printed on paper and

is permanet. Hard copies allow data to be read without
the need of a computer and are often required when
someone needs to sign a document.
 Softcopy

• A soft copy is an electronic copy of some type of data,

such as a file viewed on a computer's display or
transmitted as an e-mail attachment.
 Examples of Output Devices
Printers Headphones
3D Printer Monitor
Plotter Projector
Microfilm Sound card
GPS Speakers
Modems TV
Video card
 Display Devices

• Monitor
• Projector
• TV
 What is a display device?

• A display device is an output device for presentation of

information in visual format, such as on screen.
• Names used for display devices
• VDT (video display terminal)
• Crt (cathode ray tube)
• VDU (video display unit)
• LCD (liquid crystal display)
• LED (light emitting diode)
VDT (video display terminal)
CRT (cathode ray tube)
VDU (video display unit)
LCD (liquid crystal display)
LED (light emitting diode)
 Printers
Impact and nonimpact
 Types of Printers

• Impact
• Non-Impact
 What are impact printers?

• An impact printer makes contact with the paper. It usually

forms the print image by pressing an inked ribbon against
the paper using a hammer or pins.
 Examples of Impact printers

• Dot-Matrix Printers
• Daisy-wheel printers
• Line printers
• Drum printer
• Chain printers
• Band printers
 Dot-Matrix Printers

• The dot-matrix printer uses print heads containing from 9

to 24 pins. These pins produce patterns of dots on the
paper to form the individual characters. 
 Line printers

• Line printers, or line-at-a-time printers, use special

mechanism that can print a whole line at once; they can
typically print the range of 1,200 to 6,000 lines per
minute.
 Non-Impact Printers

• Non-impact printers do not use a striking device to

produce characters on the paper; and because these
printers do not hammer against the paper they are much
quieter. Instead ink sprayed or toner powder is used.
These printers are very inexpensive
 Examples of Non-Impact Printers

• Ink-jet printers
• Laser printers
• Thermal Printers
• Plotters
 Inkjet Printers
• Ink-jet printers dots are formed by tiny
droplets of ink. Ink-jet printers form
characters on paper by spraying ink from
tiny nozzles through an electrical field that
arranges the charged ink particles into
characters at the rate of approximately
250 characters per second. The ink is
absorbed into the paper and dries
instantly.
 Laser printer

• Laser printer produce attractive document at a high

resolution and are much faster than ink-jets. They are used
in many workplaces because they are quiet, and quickly.
The printing speed of laser printers is 5 to 300 pages per
minute (ppm). The plain text is printed faster than graphics.
• Laser printer prints text and graphics in a high quality
resolution, a typical laser printer provides the resolution of
1200dpi or more.
 Thermal Printer

• Thermal printers use heat on chemically

treated paper to form character. Thermal
printer uses color waxes and heat to produce
images on special paper. The color wax sheets
are not required for black-and-white output.
Thermal printers are expensive and require
costly paper. These printers are used to create
the highest-quality color printing
 Plotters Printer

• A plotter uses colour pens or toners to draw an image on

a paper
 Microflim
• Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents,
typically either films or paper, made for the purposes of
transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform
images are commonly reduced to about one twenty-fifth of
the original document size. For special purposes, greater
optical reductions may be used.
 Modems

• Modems are both an input and output device. A modem

enables a computer to send data to and receive data from
another computer over a telephone line.
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