Output Devices

Output Devices are all part of the

Hardware of a computer system
Output Devices are about seeing the
results of your work!

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Types of Output
 Soft Copy
 Hard Copy

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 Classes of Monitors

Some time called visual display unit

The size of the monitor is measured diagonal 15-21 inches normally
The color will be either monochrome or color monitor
The number of pixel per square inched is called resolution
The speed with which monitor redraw its image is called refresh rate
The distance between pixel is called dot pitches

CRT (cathode ray tube)

LCD(liquid crystal display)

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 CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)
 A CRT is a television-style monitor
 It contain vacuum tube and electronic gun and phosphors
coated screen.
 The gun fire a beam of electrons which falls on coated
screen
 In color crt there are three gun also the phosphors atoms
also contain three color i.e green blue red
 Its features include:
 Clear image
 Quick response time
 Low cost
 Very popular
High power consumption
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Features of CRT Displays
 Display text and graphics
 Monitors differ in resolution
 Standards
 SVGA (super video graphics array– 1024 x 768, 1208 x
1024 and 1600 x 1200
 XGA (extended graphic array– has same resolutions but
supports more colours
 Screen sizes vary from 15” to 21”

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 LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)
 LCDs comprise flat-panel monitors
 Found on watches, calculators, digital cameras and
notebook computers
 Lighter weight
 Lcd provide sharper image than crt and emit less
radiation
 More compact
 Portable
 Easy on eye the crt
 clear images
 Extra viewing area for same size
 More expensive to buy
 Consume less power

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LCD

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 Paper Output – Hard Copy
 A printer is a device that produces
output on paper
 Most printers today can produce both
text and graphics
 Two types of printers:
 Impact printers
 Non-impact printers

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Impact Printers
 The impact printers print the characters by striking them
on the ribbon which is then pressed on the paper.
 Characteristics of Impact Printers are the following
 Very low consumable costs
 Very noisy
 Useful for bulk printing due to low cost
 There is physical contact with the paper to produce an
image

 These printers are of two types

Character printers
Line printers
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Character Printers

 Character printers are the printers which print one

character at a time.
 These are further divided into two types
 Dot Matrix Printer(DMP)
 Daisy Wheel

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Dot Matrix Printer

 In the market one of the most popular printers is Dot Matrix

Printer. These printers are popular because of their ease of
printing and economical price. Each character printed is in form
of pattern of dots and head consists of a Matrix of Pins of size
(5*7, 7*9, 9*7 or 9*9) which come out to form a character that is
why it is called Dot Matrix Printer.
 Advantages
 Inexpensive
 Widely Used
 Other language characters can be printed

 Disadvantages
 Slow Speed
 Poor Quality
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Dot Matrix Printer

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Daisy Wheel

 Head is lying on a wheel and pins corresponding to characters.

 These printers are generally used for word-processing in offices
which require a few letters to be sent here and there with very
nice quality.
 Advantages
 More reliable than DMP
 Better quality
 The fonts of character can be easily changed

 Disadvantages
 Slower than DMP
 Noisy
 More expensive than DMP
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Daisy Wheel

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 Line Printer

 Line printers are the printers which print one

line at a time
 Used by mainframes for
jobs that need a large volume of printing
 Limited characters available
 Cheap to run
 Not high quality

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Line Printer

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Non-Impact Printers
 Characteristics of Non-impact Printers
 Faster than impact printers.
 They are not noisy.
 High quality.
 Support many fonts and different character size.

There are two types of Non-Impact Printers

 Laser Printers
 Ink-jet printers

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 Laser Printers
 Laser Printers
 These are non-impact page printers. They use laser lights to produce the
dots needed to form the characters to be printed on a page.
 Laser printers can print– 50 ppm

 Advantages
 Very high speed
 Very high quality output
 Give good graphics quality
 Support many fonts and different character size

 Disadvantages
 Expensive.
 Cannot be used to produce multiple copies of a document in a single
printing.

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Laser Printers

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 Ink-Jet Printers
 Inkjet printers are non-impact character printers based on a relatively new technology.
 They print characters by spraying small drops of ink onto paper.
 They make less noise because no hammering is done and these have many styles of
printing modes available.
 Colour printing is also possible. Some models of Inkjet printers can produce multiple
copies of printing also.
 Ink-jet printers can print– 12 ppm

 Advantages
 High quality printing
 More reliable

 Disadvantages
 Expensive as cost per page is high
 Slow as compared to laser printer

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Ink-Jet Printers

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 Plotters
 Used by graphic designers/architects
 Image transferred to paper with ink pens
 Very high resolution
 Excellent for scientific and engineering
applications

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Speakers, Headphones, and
Earbuds
 An audio output device produces music, speech, or
other sounds

Most computer users attach speakers

to their computers to:
• Generate higher-quality sounds for playing
games
• Interact with multimedia presentations
• Listen to music
• View movies

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Headphones
 Headphones are speakers that cover or are placed outside of the ear

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Earbuds (also called earphones) rest inside the ear canal

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Wireless speakers

 Wireless speakers are specifically designed to play audio

from a portable media player

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 Other Output Devices
 Other output devices are available for specific uses and
applications

Data Interactive
projectors whiteboards

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 data projector
 A data projector is a
device that takes the
text and images
displaying on a
computer screen and
projects them on a
larger screen

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Discovering Computers 2012: Chapter 6
Figure 6-29 28
 interactive whiteboard
 An interactive whiteboard is a touch-sensitive device,
resembling a dry-erase board, that displays the image on a
connected computer screen

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Figure 6-30 29
Input devices

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Input Devices
 An input device is any hardware component that
allows you to enter data and instructions onto a
computer. Six Widely used input devices are the
keyboard, mouse, microphone, scanner, digital camera
and PC video camera.

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 KEYBOARD
• The keyboard is the main input device for computers. For
instance, boot up a computer without a keyboard and it
stops, warning the user that no keyboard is attached.

• The keyboard is the only tool available at the command

prompt, so it is a necessity for a computer.

• It is also used in almost every application like spreadsheets,

email, word processing documents and coding.

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scanner
 Scanners allow information such as a photo or text to be input into a computer.
 Scanners are usually either A4 size (flatbed), as shown below, or hand-held to scan a
much smaller area.
 If text is to be scanned, you would use an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program to
recognize the printed text and then convert it to a digital text file that can be accessed using
a computer.

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 TRACKBALL
 A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball housed in a socket containing
sensors to detect rotation of the ball about two axes - like a mouse lying on its back.
 The cursor is moved about the screen by a user rolling the ball with their thumb,
fingers.
 There are usually one to three buttons next to the ball, which are in the same way as
mouse buttons.

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 joystick
 A joystick is a PC peripheral or general control device
consisting of a handheld stick that pivots about one end and
transmits its angle in two or three dimensions to a computer.
 Most joysticks are two-dimensional, having two axes of
movement (similar to a mouse), but three-dimensional
joysticks do exist.
 A joystick is generally configured so that moving the stick left
or right signals movement along the X axis, and moving it
forward (up) or back (down) signals movement along the Y
axis.

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STORAGE DEVICE
 A storage device is a hardware device designed to store
information. There are two types of storage devices used in
computers; a 'primary storage' device and a 'secondary storage'
device.
 term used to describe any location where information can be
held permanently or temporarily for later use. A computer
commonly has two types of storage: internal and external. For
example, an internal storage is a device such as a hard disk
drive and an external / removable storage is a device such as a
floppy disk drive. Below are examples of types of storage that
can be found on a computer.
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 Floppy disk drive
 A Floppy Disk Drive, or FDD for short, is a
computer disk drive that enables a user to easily save
data to removable diskettes.
 Although 8" disk drives were the first real disk drives,
the first widely used an floppy disk drives were the 5
1/4" floppy disk drives, which were later replaced with
3 1/2" floppy disk drives.
 However, today because of the limited capacity and
reliability of floppy diskettes many computers no
longer come equipped with floppy disk drives and are
being replaced with CD-R and other writable disc
drives and flash drives.
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CD-ROM
 Short for Compact Disc-Read Only Memory, CD-ROM
drives are CD players inside computers that can have
speeds in the range from 1x and beyond, and have the
capability of playing audio CDs and computer data CDs.

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Hard drive
 The computer's main storage media device used to
permanently store all data on the computer.
 Also referred to as a hard disk drive or abbreviated
as HD or HDD, the hard drive was first introduced
on September 13, 1956 and consists of one or more
hard disk platters inside of air sealed casing.
 Most hard drives are permanently stored in an
internal drive bay at the front of the computer and are
connected with either ATA, SCSI, or a SATA cable and
power cable. Below is an illustration of the inside of a
hard disk drive.
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 Below is a picture of the front and back of a standard CD-
ROM drive.

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Output device
 An output device is any piece of computer hardware
equipment used to communicate the results of data
processing carried out by an information processing
system (such as a computer) to the outside world.

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 In computing, input/output, or I/O, refers to the
communication between an information processing
system (such as a computer), and the outside world.
 Inputs are the signals or data sent to the system, and
outputs are the signals or data sent by the system to
the outside.

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Examples of output devices:

 Speaker
 Headphones
 Screen (Monitor)
 Printer

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 speaker
 Computer speakers, or multimedia speakers, are speakers
external to a computer, that disable the lower fidelity built-in
speaker.
 They often have a low-power internal amplifier.
 Computer speakers range widely in quality and in price.
 The computer speakers typically packaged with computer
systems are small, plastic, and have mediocre sound quality.
Some computer speakers have equalization features such as
bass and treble

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Headphones
 Headphones are a pair of small loudspeakers, or less
commonly a single speaker, with a way of holding them
close to a user's ears and a means of connecting them to a
signal source such as an audio amplifier, radio or CD player.
 They are also known as stereo phones, headsets.
 The in-ear versions are known as earphones or ear buds.
 In the context of telecommunication, the term headset is
used to describe a combination of headphone and
microphone used for two-way communication, for example
with a telephone.

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Monitor
 A Monitor or Display (sometimes called a visual
display unit) is an electronic visual display for
computers.
 The monitor comprises the display device, circuitry,
and an enclosure.
 The display device in modern monitors is typically a
thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD)
thin panel, while older monitors use a cathode ray tube
about as deep as the screen size.

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