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Laser Writer QRTurb o Workgroup laser printer.. Printer AdvertismentsStylus Dot-matrix Printer Dot-matrix printer with 24 pins.. Comes with PostScript language and PCL printer control

UNIT 2:

CHOOSING A

PRINTER

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Printer Advertisments

Laser Writer QR

Turb

o

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

₤

1,150

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C OLOUR P OST S CRIPT

P RINTER

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

₤

2,2 49

Printer Advertisments

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

Printer Advertisments

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

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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

Turb

o

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

₤

1,150

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

,2

49

COLOUR INK-JET

**********************

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 ₤ 17 9

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