Computer Skills-Nikunj Agarwal-A001

Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal’s
Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics
(Autonomous)
Bachelor of Financial Market
FYBFM (Semester II-Division A)
Subject: Computer skills
Topic – Output Devices
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Student’s Name Nikunj agarwal
Roll No A001
SAP ID 45205200021
OUTPUT DEVICES
An output device is any hardware device used to send data from a computer to another
device or user. Usually, most output peripherals are meant for human use, so they receive the
processed data from the computer and transform it in the form of audio, video, or physical
reproductions.
The output devices most commonly used with microcomputers are:
 Monitors
 Printers
 Plotters
 Computer speakers
 projectors
Monitors
Display device is the most common form of output device. It presents output visually on
computer screen. The output appears temporarily on the screen and can easily altered or
erased, it is sometimes referred to as soft copy also. The display device for a desktop PC is
called monitor.
With all-in-one PCs, notebook computers, hand held PCs and other devices; the term display
screen is used for the display device. The display devices are also used in home entertainment
systems, mobile systems, cameras and video games.
Display devices form images by lighting up the proper configurations of pixels. In short the
display devices are organized in the form of Pixels, & pixels are arranged in the form of
Matrix,[3] a 2-dimensional matrix which is organized as rows & columns.
There are 2 types of monitors, they are Monochrome & Coloured Monitors
Monochrome Display
Monochrome monitors actually display two colours, one for the foreground and one for the
background. A monochrome monitor is a type of CRT computer display which was very
common in the early days of computing, from the 1960s through the 1980s, before colour
monitors became popular. The most important component in the monitor is the picture tube.
Coloured Display
The colours can be black and white, green and black, or amber and black. The Coloured
Monitor is a display device capable of displaying many colours. The Colour monitors can
display anywhere from 16 to over 1 million different colours.
The colour monitors are sometimes called RGB monitors, because they accept three separate
signals (red, green, and blue). In contrast, a monochrome monitor can display only two
colours one for the background and one for the foreground. Colour monitors implement the
RGB colour model by using three different phosphors that appear red, green, and blue when
activated.
Printers
A printer is a hardware device that produces a hard copy version of the processed data from
the computer.
It is a device that accepts texts and graphic output from the computer and transmits the image
data to the printer, usually on a paper.
Printers are the most common output device to print text or photos. Some printers can print
only in black and white, but today, almost all the printers can print monochrome and color
prints
The printers are classified into two main types –
 Impact printers
 Non-Impact printers.
Impact printer
This type of printer prints characters by striking on the ribbon, and then they are pressed on
the paper. This type of printer is nowadays not in use as they make too much noise.
The impact printers are of two types –
Character printer
Character printer can print only text, and a single character at a time. The different types of
character printers are – chain, band, dot matrix, and daisy wheel printers.
The commonly used printers are dot matrix and daisy wheel. Their speed is up to 300 lines
per minute.
Line Printer
Line printers can print line by line. The two types of line printers are drum printer and chain
printer. Among these, the drum printer has high speed and can print up to 300 to 2000 lines
per minute.
Non-Impact printer
These types of printers are those printers that print without striking on the ribbon. The
examples of non-impact printers are laser printer and inkjet printer.
Laser Printers
Laser printers use laser lights to produce dots to form the characters for printing. When a
print command is given, a laser beam “draws” the document on a selenium-coated drum
using an electrical charge, giving a clean copy of the image on the paper. They have less
smearing problems than an inkjet printer, as they don’t use inks.
Inkjet Printers
Inkjet printers are printers that produce the hard copy by spraying the ink onto the paper.
Inkjet printers are the most widely used type of printer. There are expensive and inexpensive
models available in the market.
Plotters
plotter is a kind of hardware output device similar to a printer used to draw vector graphics.
Plotter generates a digitally represented hardcopy of the design.
A graphics card sends the design to the plotter, and a pen is used to form the design. It is
usually used in engineering and basically draws a certain image on a number of straight lines.
Computer speakers
The computer speakers are the most common output devices used with a computer. The
speakers receive audio as an input from the computer or a sound card then this input may be
either in analog or digital form.
Most computer speakers have internal amplifiers which can increase the volume or the
amplitude of the sound based on users requirement.
External speakers are connected to a computer only if a user requires louder sounds, more
bass, or surround sound.
Projector
A projector is an output device that can take images produced by a computer and project
them onto a screen or surface.
The older versions of the projectors used to create the image by shinning the light through a
small transparent lens while the newer version projectors can project the image directly by
using a laser.
The projectors used nowadays are known as video projectors. The projectors can produce still
images or moving images.
Projectors are used in classrooms, offices, auditoriums, and also at places of worship, as it
enables a group of people to watch videos, presentations, or pictures generated from a single
computer.

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Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal’s

Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics

Bachelor of Financial Market

FYBFM (Semester II-Division A)

Subject: Computer skills

Topic – Output Devices

Student’s Name Nikunj agarwal

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