Technology explained: how a printer works

If you don't have a printer yet and you are unsure about the requirements to install it on your computer, the best way to find out is to understand how a printer works.

The file to be printed is sent to the printer, which serves as the output device. Here, the output is not executed on the screen as it is on your computer, but the printer prints it out. Therefore, it is also important that the computer is connected to the printer at the time of printing, so that it can perform the output of the data.

Understand how a printer works

If the printing is commissioned from the terminal device, it is also interesting to know how the printer implements the printing:

1. With an inkjet printer, which is in operation in most private homes, you can get printing results with intense color results. To do this, the document is printed by very small ink drops of the respective corresponding colors to be used are transported to the paper.
2. The more nozzles the print head has, the higher the resolution of the print result, because so the ink is printed more closely meshed and more precisely on the paper.
3. When printing an image is therefore also consumed much more ink than with text documents, since there are no free areas within the image. In addition, the colors needed for a printout are mixed from the basic colors cyan, magenta and yellow. The mixing ratio gets the printer by codes communicated, which stand for a certain color and its mixing ratio.