Wednesday 15 June 2011

Input and Output

Ergonomic Keyboard




An ergonomic keyboard ia a type of keyboard that is designed with the ergonomic considerations to help minimize music strain and many other related problems.



Inkjet printer



An inkjet printer is a type of printer that makes a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto the paper. It is one of the most commonly used type of printer.



Laser printer



The laser printer is the well known type of personal computer printer that uses a non-impact photocopier technology. After a document was sent to the printer, a laser beam "draws" the document on a selenium-coated drum using electrical charges. After that, the drum that is fully charged will be rolled in  a toner, a dry powder type of ink. The toner will then adheres to the charged image on the drum. The toner is then transferred onto a piece of paper and fused to the paper with heat and pressure. Most laser printers print only in monochrome.


Magnetic-Ink Character Recognition




A magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) is a type of a character recognition technology used by the banking industry to help the processing of cheques. It allows computers to read information such as the account numbers off printed documents. MICR codes can be easily read by the humans.



Optical-character recognition






The optical character recognition (OCR) is the recognition of printed or written text characters by a computer that involves photo scanning of the text character-by-character, analysis of the scanned-in image and also the translation of the character image into character codes such as ASCII which is commonly used in data processing.






Optical-Mark Recognition


An optical mark recognition (OMR) is the process of capturing human-marked data from document forms such as surveys and tests.


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