Chapter 4: Managing Printers
Exam Objectives
Identifying paper feeder mechanisms
Understanding types of printers
Identifying printer connections
Identifying common printer problems
Understanding preventive maintenance and safety precautions
In today’s business world, maintaining a printing environment is one of the most time-consuming parts of managing a network. For a supposedly paperless era, we seem to spend a lot of time troubleshooting why a printer won’t print!
This chapter introduces you to the different types of printers and describes how each type of printer works, which is important for the A+ Certification exam. From an exam point of view, be sure you are extremely comfortable with the parts of a laser printer and the six phases of the laser printer’s print process — you are guaranteed to get some questions on it!
Be sure to also go over the troubleshooting sections. I think ...
