Chapter 5: Input and Output
What is an output?
● Output is the processed data or information
● It typically takes the form of text, graphics, images, audio, and or video.
● Output devices are any hardware used to provide or to create output.
There are a wide range of output devices
● Monitors
● Printers
● Audio-output devices
Monitors
● Most frequently used output device is the monitor
● The output is often referred to as soft copy
● Monitors vary in size, shape and softness.
● The most important characteristic is clarity.
● It is a function of several features including, dot pitch
Resolution is one of the most important features
Images are formed on a monitor by a series of pixels
Resolution is expressed as a matrix of these dots or pixels
The higher a monitor’s resolution, the clearer the images produced.
Pixel pitch is the distance between each pixel
Contrast ratio indicate a monitor’s ability to display images
Size or active display is measured diagonal length. Aspect ratio indicates the proportional
relationship between a display’s width and height
Another ability is to accept to touch or gesture input such as finger movements
Almost all flat panel displays are backlit, meaning that a common source of light that is
dispersed
Curved monitor
One of the most recent is the curved monitors. Has a
Ebook reader
Traditional printed books in electronic format
They are decitated mobile devices for storing
They are
Tablets can also display eboks
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Other monitors
There are several monitors
Digital or interactive whiteboards are specialized devices with a large display connected to a
computer or projector
Ultra high definition devillers a much clearer and more detailed widescreen picture than a
regular hdtv
Digital projectors project the images from a onto a screen or wall
Printers
Even as many individuals go paperless, printers remain one of the most used output devices
Printers translate information that has been processed by the system unit and presented on
paper
Resolution for a printer is similar to a monitor’s resolution
Users have the option to print either with just color or in shades of black
The most common ink is used
Speed is numbered in the amount of pages per minute
Memory within a printer is used to store printing instructions and documents waiting to be
printed/
Inkjet printers spray ink at high speed onto the surface of paper
Relatively inexpensive and are widely used
Laser printers
The laser printers use a technology similar to that used in a photocopy machine.
There are two categories of laser printer
Personal
Shared printers create a 3rd dimensional shape by adding thin layer after layer until the shape is
formed
Controlled by data describing the shape of the object to be created
Commercial have been used for decades
There are several other types of printers
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Cloud printers connected to the internet that provided printed service to others in the internet
Google cloud print is already deprecated
Thermal printers use heat elements to produce images on heat sensitive paper.
Plotters are specialized printed for
Audio output devices translate audio information from the computers into audio into sounds
The most widely used devices are speakers
The sound card is used to capture
Creating voice output is not anywhere near as difficult
Voice output is quite common
Combination input and output devices
Many devices use input and output combine capabilities
Headset
Combines the function of microphone and headphones
Multifunctional devices typically combine the capabilities of a scanner, printer, fax, and copy
machine
Their disadvantages are lower quality and unreliability
Telephones are input and output devices for receiving and sending voice messages.
Internet telephone uses the internet while
Drones
Drones were once too expensive for anything other than the military.
However today’s drones are expensive, faster, and smarter and have been used as a high tech
toy.
Robots
Has become relatively inexpensive with expanding capabilities.
Ergonomics
● Computers can make people less productive and even harm their health.
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● Defined as the study of human factors related to things people use.
● Sitting in front of screen may result in eye strain, headache, and back pain
