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OUTPUT

Output Devices

Is any hardware component that conveys information to one or more people.

Two Types

Hard Copy ---- also called printout

Soft Copy

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Hard Copy

printer

is an output device that produces text and graphics on a physical medium such paper or transparency film.

Plotter

Are sophisticated printers used to produce high-quality drawings such as blueprint, maps, and circuit diagrams.

Microfilm

film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material

microfiche

small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material.

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Other output devices

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Soft Copy

screen

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speaker and headset

another computer

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Types of printers

Impact printers

Daisy wheel, band, chain and drum printers (old technology )

Dot Matrix printer

line printer

Non-impact printers

laser

ink jet

thermal

photo

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Printers

Types commonly used with microcomputers

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Laser printer

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Uses a technology similar to that used in a photocopying machine

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High quality

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Ink-jet printer

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Sprays small droplets of ink at high speed onto the surface of the paper

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inexpensive

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Thermal printer

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Uses heat elements to produce images on heat sensitive paper

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Very high-quality color artwork

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Laser printer

Ink-jet printer

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Thermal printer

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Photo Printer

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Printers

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Dot-matrix printers

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Using a series of small pins on a print head Inexpensive Noisy, quality not high

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screen

Also called VDU, terminal, monitor etc

Types of screens:

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cathode ray tube ( CRT ): Most common screen

is a desktop monitor that is similar to a standard television because it contains a cathode-ray tube.

liquid crystal display (

LCD

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Also called flat panel monitor, is a desktop monitor that uses a liquid crystal display instead of a cathode-ray tube to produce images on a screen.

sharp , flicker-free displays

Gas Plasma

Uses gas plasma technology which substitutes a layer of gas for the liquid crystal material in a flat panel monitor.

Pixel

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Resolution

Monitor Standards

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Screen

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pixel :

Each spot is called a pixel , short for picture element, is the smallest element in an electronic image.

The colour of each pixel is stored in the graphics card as a number:

256 colours = 8bits(1 byte) per pixel

16 colours = 4 bits per pixel

Resolution

Describe the sharpness and clearness of an image, usually defined in pixels.

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Other output devices

Fax

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Send and receive images over telephone lines

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Data projectors

Is a device that takes the image from a computer screen and projects it onto a large screen so an audience of people can see the image clearly .

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microfilm

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Microfiche

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Plotter

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Plotter in 1984

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Voice Output

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Produce sounds for people Widely used devices

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Speakers & Headphones

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Connected with sound card

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Capture and play back recorded sounds

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Music player: MP3 Voice output is common and simpler than voice recognition

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Soft-drink machines, telephones, cars, language learning, supermarkets checkout counter, assist the physically challenged

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sound card

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The most commonly used monitors

Cathode-ray tubes(CRT)

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Similar to televisions Low cost and excellent resolution Size big, with radialization

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The most commonly used monitors

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Flat-panel monitors

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Also called liquid crystal display(LCD) monitors

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Much thinner than CRTs 2 types of flat-panel monitors

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Passive-matrix

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Scanning entire screen Need little power, not very clear

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Active-matrix(thin film transistor,TFT)

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Each pixel is independently activated Require more power, more expensive, better clarity

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Gas Plasma

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Monitor Standards

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Indicate screen quality Most common standards

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SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array

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800X600, for 15-inch monitors

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XGA: stands for Extended Graphics Array

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1024X768, for 17- and 19-inch monitors

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SXGA: stands for Super Extended Graphics Array

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1280X1024, 19- and 21-inch monitors

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UXGA: stands for Ultra Extended Graphics Array

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High-end engineering design and graphic arts

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