Choosing a printer

UNIT 2:
CHOOSING A PRINTER
SCAN READING
Printer Advertisments
Laser Writer QR
Turbo
Workgroup laser printer. 15 pages per minute. 600 dpi for graphics. 36MB of RAM. Includes Adobe PostScript and Hewlett Packard PCLprinterlanguages.
75 resident fonts. Connectivity:
one bi-directional parallel
port, oneLocalTalkport
and one Ethernet port
for networks. 12 months warranty
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COLOUR POSTSCRIPT PRINTER

Colour printer. 40 Adobe Postscript fonts. 30MB RAM with a SCSI interface for an optional 20MB hard disk. Parallel, serial, and AppleTalk interfaces. HP plotter emulation. Thermalprinting system.
30-day money-back guarantee
and 1 year’s on-site part and labour.
Printer Advertisments
? 2,249
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COLOUR INK-JET
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Stunning Plug & Play colour printer. Brilliant photo quality (up to 720 dpi) and fast drying ink. Produces 8 pages per minutes in plain text and 4 pages in colour. 150 page-paper tray.
Has friendly service.
? 210
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Stylus Dot-matrix Printer
Dot-matrix printer with 24 pins. Prints text and graphics. 450 cps. Compatible special interface. Free unlimited hotline support for our customers. One year on-site maintenance
? 179
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Crystal Laser Printer II
Two 200-sheet-selectable-input trays
A resolution of 1,200 dpi. Comes with PostScript language and PCL (printer control language)
14 pages per minute.
6MB RAM
LCD display
80 internal scalable fonts
₤999
Telephone hotline support
Printer Advertisments
Micro Laser XT
Personal. 5 pages per minute. 4MB RAM expandable to 64MB. Parallel interface. 200 sheet input tray. 35 resident fonts. One-year on-site maintenance. Prints on a wide range of materials and size
₤649
Laser Writer QR
Turbo
Workgroup laser printer. 15 pages per minute. 600 dpi for graphics. 36MB of RAM. Includes Adobe PostScript and Hewlett Packard
PCL printer languages. 75 resident
fonts. Connectivity: one bi-directional
parallel port, one LocalTalk port,
and one Ethernet port for
networks. 12 months warranty
COLOUR POSTSCRIPT PRINTER
Colour printer. 40 Adobe Postscript fonts. 30MB RAM with a SCSI interface for an optional 20MB hard disk. Parallel, serial,
and AppleTalk interfaces. HP plotter emulation. Thermal printing system.
30-day money-back guarantee
and 1 year’s on-site part and labour.
₤ 2,249
COLOUR INK-JET
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Stunning Plug & Play colour printer. Brilliant photo quality (up to 720 dpi) and fast drying ink. Produces 8 pages per minutes in plain text and 4 pages in colour. 150 page-paper tray. Has friendly service
? 210
Stylus Dot-matrix Printer
Dot-matrix printer with 24 pins. Prints text and graphics. 450 cps. Compatible special interface. Free unlimited hotline support for our customers. One year on-site maintenance
? 179
Crystal Laser Printer II
₤999
₤649
Micro Laser XT
Personal. 5 pages per minute. 4MB RAM expandable to 64MB. Parallel interface. 200 sheet input tray. 35 resident fonts. One-year on-site maintenance. Prints on a wide range of materials and size
14 pages per minute.
6MB RAM
Two 200-sheet-selectable-input trays
LCD display
80 internal scalable fonts
A resolution of 1,200 dpi. Comes with PostScript language and PCL (printer control language)
Telephone hotline support
Crystal Laser Printer II
14 pages per minute.
Answer the following questions about the advertisments
1. How many lasers printers are advertised here?
2. Is there a printer that operates by spraying ink droplets onto papers?
3. Which laser printer offers the highest resolution, or output quality?
4. Which printer is the most expensive?
5. Which one would you recommend to a friend who does not have much money?
Three laser printers are advertised here.
Yes, there is. The Colour Ink-jet.
The Crystal Laser Printer II.
That’s the Colour PostScript Printer.
The Mocro Laser XT or the Stylus Dot-Matrix
6. Which one has more internal fonts?
Answer the following questions about the advertisments
The Crystal Laser Printer II.
7. What are the two types of laser printer language?
They are Adobe PostScript and Hewlett Packard PCL
8. What connectivity features are offered by the Turbo Laser Writer QR?
One bi-directional parallel port, one LocalTalk port and one Ethernet port for networks.
9. Find the abbreviations for these expressions: dots per inch, characters per second, pages per minute, small computer system interface and liquid-crystal display.
dots per inch = dpi characters per second = cps pages per minute = ppm liquid-crystal display = LCD small computer system interface = SCSI