Output Devices

Output
OBJECTIVES
 Identify the different types of display devices

 Describe factors that affect the quality of a
monitor
 Understand the purpose of a video card
 Explain the differences among various types
of printers
 List various types of audio output devices
 Identify the purpose of data projectors, fax
machines, and multifunction devices
 Explain how a terminal is both an input and
output device
 Identify output options for physically
challenged users
WHAT ARE OUTPUT
DEVICES?
 Any computer component capable

of conveying information to a user
 Criminal animation video
DISPLAY DEVICES
 An output device that visually

conveys text, graphics, and video
information
DISPLAY DEVICES
 CRT Monitors
 Screen housed in a plastic or
metal case
 Color monitor
 Monochrome monitor
– Gray scaling
 Cathode ray tube (CRT)
 Pixels
 Viewable size
DISPLAY DEVICES
 Flat-panel displays
 LCD displays
– Lightweight
– Used by handheld computers
– Active and passive-matrix
displays
– Also used with desktop
computers
 Gas plasma
DISPLAY DEVICES
 Monitor Quality
 Resolution - sharpness and
clarity
 Higher resolution means smaller
images display
 Dot pitch
 Refresh rate
 Interlacing
DISPLAY DEVICES
 Video Cards
 Converts digital output into an
analog video signal that is sent
through a cable to a monitor
 Number of colors
 Various video standards
 Video RAM
 Computer Display Animation
PRINTERS
 An output device that produces

text and graphics on a physical
medium such as paper or
transparency film
 Hard copy (printout)
 Portrait vs. landscape
 Printing requirements vary
 Printing Animation
PRINTERS
 Impact Printers
 Printing mechanism strikes
paper, ribbon and character
together
 Not usually letter quality (LQ)
 Many are near letter quality
(NLQ)
 Used for multipart forms
PRINTERS
 Impact Printers
 Dot matrix printers
– Small dots form characters
– Continuous form paper
– More pins on print head
means higher quality
– Speed measured in
characters per second (cps)
PRINTERS
 Impact Printers
 Line printers
– High speed
– Prints an entire line at a time
– Band printer
– Shuttle-matrix printer
PRINTERS
 Nonimpact Printers
 No mechanism strikes the paper
 Much quieter than impact printers
PRINTERS
 Nonimpact Printers
 Ink-jet printers
– Spray tiny drops of ink onto
the paper
– Both black-and-white and
color
– Resolution measured in dots
per inch (dpi)
– Speed measured in pages per
minute (ppm)
– Nozzles spray ink
PRINTERS (Nonimpact
Printers)
 Laser printers
 High-speed, high-quality
nonimpact printer
 Very high quality resolution -
300dpi to 1,200 dpi
 Stores entire page before printing
it
 Page description language (PDL)
– PCL (Printer Control
Language)
– Postscript
 Operates much like a copy
machine
 Toner
 Replace cartridge
PRINTERS Nonimpact
Printers
 Thermal printers
 Pushes electrically heated pins
against heat-sensitive paper
 Thermal wax-transfer printer
 Dye-sublimation printer
PRINTERS (Nonimpact
Printers)
 Portable printers
 Small, lightweight printer that
allows a mobile user to print from
a laptop or handheld computer
while traveling
 Ink-jet
 Thermal or thermal wax-transfer
 Parallel port or infrared port
PRINTERS (Nonimpact
Printers)
 Plotters and Large-Format

Printers
 Used for high-quality drawings
such as blueprints, maps, circuit
diagrams, and signs
 Plotters
– Pen plotters
– Electrostatic plotters
 Large-format printer
– Photo-realistic quality color
prints
PRINTERS (Nonimpact
Printers)
 Special-purpose printers
 Snapshot printer
– Photo lab quality pictures
 Label printer
AUDIO OUTPUT
 Audio output devices

 Produce music, speech, or other
sounds
 Speakers
 Headsets
OTHER OUTPUT DEVICES
 Data projectors
 Allows an audience to view
output
 LCD projectors
 Digital light processing (DLP)
projector
 Facsimile (Fax) Machine

 Used to transmit and receive an
image of a document over a
phone line
 Stand-alone
 Fax modem
 Multifunction Devices
 Can print, scan, copy, and fax
 Less space
 Lower cost than separate units
TERMINALS
 Performs both input and output

 Monitor
 Keyboard
 Video card
TERMINALS
 Dumb terminal
 Host computer
 Intelligent terminal
 Programmable terminal
 Point-of-sale (POS) terminal
 Automatic teller machine (ATM)
OUPUT DEVICES FOR
PHYSICALLY
CHALLENGED USERS
 Windows Accessibility Properties

dialog box
 Braille printer
SUMMARY OF OUTPUT
 What is output and what are

output devices?
 Display devices
 Printers
 Audio output
 Other output devices
 Terminals
 Output devices for physically
challenged users

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 Identify the different types of display devices

 Any computer component capable

 An output device that visually

 An output device that produces

 Plotters and Large-Format

 Audio output devices

 Facsimile (Fax) Machine

 Performs both input and output

 Windows Accessibility Properties

 What is output and what are

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