ASSIGNMENT 13
Textbook Assignment: “Printers,” chapter 12, pages 12-1 through 12-15; and “Data Conversion Devices and
Switchboards,” chapter 13, pages 13-1 through 13-5.
13-1.
13-2.
13-3.
13-4.
Printers that use pins or hammers to strike an
inked ribbon to transfer characters to paper
are classified as which of the following
types?
1. Impact printers
2. Nonimpact printers
3. Thermal printers
4. Laser printers
A predefine table of characters that can be
printed by a printer is known as the
1. print head
2. character set
3. printer code
4. character library
The 8-bit printer codes that define the
alphanumeric characters of the standard
English alphabet are contained in which of
the following character sets?
1. American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) character set
2. Computer Institute character set
3. Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) standard character set
4. American National Standard Code for
Information Interchange (ASCII)
character set
Standard printer character codes contain a
total of how many data bits?
1. Five
2. Six
3. Seven
4. Eight
13-5. The ASCII decimal value 66 represents
which of the following characters?
1. A
2. a
3. B
4. b
13-6. The ASCII decimal values 128 through 255
are used for which, if any, of the following
functions?
1. Alternate character set
2. Control codes
3. Lowercase letters of the main character
s e t
4. None of the above; they are undefined
and have no meaning
13-7. The type of characters that a printer can print
is dependent on which of the following
factors?
1. The type of printer only
2. The software only
3. The type of printer and the software
4. The type of computer
13-8. A printer driver is a software routine that
performs which of the following functions?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Defines the printer capabilities to the
software
Defines the character set to the printer
Defines the graphics capability of the
printer
All of the above
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