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Assignment # 01: Barani Institute of Science Sahiwal

This document is Esha Khan's assignment submission for her ICT class to Hina Umbreen. It discusses various types of output devices including monitors, printers, speakers, headsets, projectors, and plotters. It describes monitors as the most common visual display unit and explains the differences between monochrome and color displays. It also provides details on printers, describing inkjet, laser, and dot matrix printers. The document aims to inform the reader about different categories of output devices that convert digital information into human-readable forms.

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Assignment # 01: Barani Institute of Science Sahiwal

This document is Esha Khan's assignment submission for her ICT class to Hina Umbreen. It discusses various types of output devices including monitors, printers, speakers, headsets, projectors, and plotters. It describes monitors as the most common visual display unit and explains the differences between monochrome and color displays. It also provides details on printers, describing inkjet, laser, and dot matrix printers. The document aims to inform the reader about different categories of output devices that convert digital information into human-readable forms.

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ASSIGNMENT # 01

Subjects:
ICT

Submitted by:
Esha Khan

Submitted to:
Hina Umbreen

Registration No:
20-BIS-2335

BARANI INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE SAHIWAL


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Contents

1. Output Devices......................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1. Monitor............................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1.1. Monochrome Display........................................................................................................... 3
1.1.2. Color Display........................................................................................................................... 3
1.2. Printer................................................................................................................................................. 4
1.3. Speakers............................................................................................................................................. 4
1.4. Headset............................................................................................................................................... 4
1.5. Projector............................................................................................................................................ 4
1.6. Plotter................................................................................................................................................. 4
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1. Output Devices
An output device is any piece of computer hardware equipment which converts
information into human-readable form. It can be text, graphics, tactile, audio, and video.

Some of the output devices are Visual Display Units (VDU) i.e. a Monitor, Printer,
Graphic Output devices[1], Plotters, Speakers etc. A new type of Output device is been
developed these days, known as Speech synthesizer,[2] a mechanism attached to the
computer which produces verbal output sounding almost like human speeches.

1.1.Monitor
A display device is the most common form of output device. It presents output visually
on computer screen. The output appears temporarily on the screen and can easily
altered or erased, it is sometimes referred to as soft copy also. The display device for a
desktop PC is called monitor.

With all-in-one PCs, notebook computers, hand held PCs and other devices; the term
display screen is used for the display device. The display devices are also used in home
entertainment systems, mobile systems, cameras and video games

Types of Monitor

1.1.1. Monochrome Display


A monochrome monitor is a type of CRT computer display which was very common in
the early days of computing, from the 1960s through the 1980s, before color monitors
became popular. The most important component in the monitor is the picture tube. CRT
basically means cathode ray tube.[4] The CRT use cathode-ray-tube technology to
display images, so they are large, bulky and heavy like conventional or old televisions,
because old televisions also used the CRT technology only to display the television films
or television images. To form the image on the screen, an electronic gun sealed inside a
large glass tube fires electrons at phosphorous coated screen to light up the appropriate
pixels in the appropriate color to display images. The phosphors glow only for a limited
period of time after the exposure of the electrons, the monitor image must be
redrawn/refreshed on a continual basis. Typical refreshment rates are between 60 and
85 times in a second.

1.1.2. Color Display


The color monitors are sometimes called RGB monitors, because they accept three
separate signals (red, green, and blue). In contrast, a monochrome monitor can display
only two colors one for the background and one for the foreground. Color monitors
implement the RGB color model by using three different phosphors that appear red,
green, and blue when activated. 
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Monitor displays types include:

 CRT display monitors


 TFT (Thin-film transistor),
 flat panel[6]
 LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)
 OLED
 LED

1.2.Printer 
This device generates a hard copy version of processed data, like documents and
photographs. The computer transmits the image data to the printer, which then
physically recreates the image, typically on paper.

Types of Printers

 Ink Jet – this kind of printer sprays tiny dots of ink onto a surface to form an
image.
 Laser – this type utilizes toner drums that roll through magnetized pigment, and
then transfers the pigment onto a surface.
 Dot Matrix – dot matrix printers utilize a print head to set images on a surface,
using an ink ribbon. These printers were commonly used between 1980 and

1.3.Speakers 
Speakers are attached to computers to facilitate the output of sound; sound cards are
required in the computer for speakers to function. The different kinds of speakers range
from simple, two-speaker output devices right the way up to surround-sound multi-
channel units.

1.4.Headset 
This is a combination of speakers and microphone.  It is mostly used by gamers, and is
also a great tool for communicating with family and friends over the internet using
some VOIP program or other.

1.5.Projector 
This is a display device that projects a computer-created image onto another surface:
usually some sort of whiteboard or wall. The computer transmits the image data to
its video card, which then sends the video image to the projector. It is most often used
for presentations, or for viewing videos.

1.6.Plotter 
This generates a hard copy of a digitally depicted design. The design is sent to the
plotter through a graphics card, and the design is formed by using a pen.  It is generally
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used with engineering applications, and essentially draws a given image using a series
of straight lines.

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