What Is Output?

• Output is data that has been processed into a useful form

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What Is Output?

• An output device is any type of hardware component that conveys

information to one or more people

Speakers,
Display
Printers headphones,
devices
and earbuds

Data Interactive
projectors whiteboards

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Display Devices

• A display device visually conveys

text, graphics, and video
information
• A monitor is packaged as a
separate peripheral
– LCD monitor
– Widescreen

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click Chapter 5, Click Web
Link from left navigation,
then click Widescreen LCD
Monitors below Chapter 5
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Figure 5-30
Display Devices

• Liquid crystal display (LCD) uses a liquid compound to present information on

a display device

Resolution Response time Brightness

Dot pitch Contrast ratio

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Display Devices

• Plasma monitors are display devices that use gas plasma

technology and offer screen sizes up to 150 inches

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Display Devices

• A CRT monitor is a desktop monitor that contains a cathode-ray

tube
– Have a much larger footprint than do LCD monitors

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Printers

• A printer produces text and

graphics on a physical
medium
• Before purchasing a printer,
ask yourself a series of
questions

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Printers

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Printers

• A nonimpact printer forms characters and graphics on a piece of

paper without actually striking the paper

Ink-jet Photo Laser Thermal

printers printers printers printers

Large-
Mobile
Plotters format
printers
printers

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Printers

• An ink-jet printer forms characters and graphics by spraying tiny drops of

liquid ink onto a piece of paper
– Color or black-and-white
– Printers with a higher dpi (dots per inch) produce a higher quality output

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Printers

A photo printer produces color

photo-lab-quality pictures
• Most use ink-jet technology
• PictBridge allows you to print photos
directly from a digital camera
• Print from a memory card and preview
photos on a built-in LCD screen
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Printers

Click to view Web Link,

click Chapter 5, Click Web
Link from left navigation,
then click Photo Printers
below Chapter 5
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Figure 5-37
Printers

High-
speed

Black-
and-
Laser High-
white printer quality

Color

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click Chapter 5, Click Web
Link from left navigation,
then click Laser Printers
below Chapter 5
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Figure 5-38
Printers

• A multifunction peripheral (MFP) is a single device that prints,

scans, copies, and in some cases, faxes
– Sometimes called an all-in-one device

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Printers

• A thermal printer generates images by pushing electrically heated

pins against the heat-sensitive paper

Thermal wax-transfer
printer

Dye-sublimation
printer
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Figure 5-40
Printers

• A mobile printer is a small,

lightweight, battery-powered
printer that allows a mobile user
to print from a mobile device

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Printers

• Plotters are used to produce high-quality drawings

• Large-format printers create photo-realistic quality color prints on a
larger scale

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Printers

• Impact printers form characters and graphics on a piece of paper by

striking a mechanism against an inked ribbon that physically
contacts the paper

Dot-matrix Line
printer printer
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Printers

• A dot-matrix printer produces

printed images when tiny wire
pins on a print head mechanism
strike an inked ribbon
• A line printer prints an entire line
at a time

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Other Output Devices

• An audio output device produces music, speech, or other sounds

Most computer users attach

speakers to their computers to:
• Generate higher-quality sounds for playing
games
• Interact with multimedia presentations
• Listen to music
• View movies

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Other Output Devices

• Headphones are speakers that

cover your head or are placed
outside of the ear
• Earbuds (also called earphones)
rest inside the ear canal

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click Chapter 5, Click Web
Link from left navigation,
then click Earbuds
below Chapter 5
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Other Output Devices

Voice output occurs when you hear a

person’s voice or when the computer
talks to you through the speakers
• Some Web sites dedicate themselves to
providing voice output
• Often works with voice input
• VoIP uses voice output and voice input
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Other Output Devices

• A data projector is a device that

takes the text and images
displaying on a computer screen
and projects them on a larger
screen
– Digital light processing (DLP)
projector

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Putting It All Together

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Putting It All Together

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Figure 5-47
Putting It All Together

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Figure 5-47
Input and Output Devices
for Physically Challenged Users
Head-mounted pointer Braille printer

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Summary

Various techniques for Various methods of

entering input and output and several
several commonly commonly used
used input device output devices

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2010 Edition
Living in a Digital World

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