Chapter 10. Using, Maintaining, and Installing Printers and Multifunction Devices

Whether standalone devices or multifunction devices that also incorporate copy, scan, and fax features, printers are important output devices—second only to video displays. They output hard-copy versions of files stored on the computer, such as documents, spreadsheets, photos, and web pages, using laser, inkjet, thermal, impact, and virtual (software) technologies.

Printers and multifunction devices can connect to a computer’s USB or parallel port via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular wireless networks, or directly to a wired network. This chapter focuses on laser, inkjet, thermal, and impact printers. Virtual printing techniques such as printing to a file, PDF, XPS, or ...

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