What Does A Modem Do?

Modem and router are two different networking hardware equipments. Modem is a modulation device, that is, a modem can modulate and demodulate data. We know that data can be either analog or digital. In computer networking, the data to be used in the computer needs to be digital but the data that is used in the networking can be analog.

For example, while connecting to the Internet by using a telephone line, the data in the networking process, that is, the data from the telephone line are analog. Now, the analog data needs to be converted to digital for processing in computer and digital data needs to be converted to analog to send from computer via the telephone line again. This conversation is the modulation and demodulation processes and the job of modem is basically to convert analog data to digital and digital data to analog.

The job of router, however, is quite different. A router does not change one kind of data to another kind. It simply forwards the data. Router works on a group of data, which are normally called as packets, and forwards the packets across the network.

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Historical Development of Computer Monitors

Monitor is the most important interfaces that connect people and PC. At the time of the first computer to operate in 1938, the monitor was 83 years old. Its development is ongoing to this day.

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Stage of development of Computer Monitors in use today is actually divided into two phases. The first phase in 1855 was marked by the discovery of cathode ray tube by scientists from Germany, Heinrich Geissler. He is the father of the monitor tube. Then, 33 years later, the Austrian chemist, Friedrich Reinitzer, laying the basis for developing LCD technology with discovered liquid crystals. Tube technology since it was originally developed to realize the monitor. However, the liquid crystals is still a chemical phenomenon during the next 80 years. At that time, the display frame rate or even yet thought of.

During this time, many thought that Karl Ferdinand Braun as the inventor of the cathode ray tube. Actually, he is the maker of the first applications for the tube, ie the oscilloscope in 1897. The device that is the basis for the development of other devices, such as television or radar screen. In the same year, Joseph John Thomson discovered the electron, which accelerates the development of the tube technique.

The first CRT Monitor (Cathode Ray Tube) was developed to receive television broadcasts. Milestone was the first television tubes from Wladimir Kosma Zworykin (1929), electronic full frame rate of Manfred von Ardenne (1930), and the development of the first cathode ray tube that can be reproduced by Allen B. Du Mont (1931).

In earlier generations of computers, not to use a special monitor as it is today. Computer time was connected with the family as a TV viewer screen of data processing is done. That is quite a problem is that the resolution of the TV monitor when it is only capable of displaying 40 characters horizontally on the screen.

Special monitors for computers issued by the IBM PC, which initially has a resolution of 80 X 25 with color capability "green monochrome". This monitor is capable of displaying the results of a brighter, clearer and more stable.
In the next generation of emerging mono graphics (MGA / MDA) which has a 720x350. Furthermore, in the early 1980s came with a CGA type of monitor resolutions range from 160x200 to 640x200 and color capabilities between 2 to 16 colors. EGA monitor comes up with a better resolution of 640x350. Monitor type is fairly stable until the advent of next-generation Windows computers.

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Wide Format Printers

Wide-Format Printers or Large Format Printers are most commonly used by architectural and engineering company for their designs and lay-outs. There is a low demand of these printers not just because they are expensive and specialized printer but also it uses inks and toners that are specially formulated and need some printer accessories like cutter and laminator. It is important to know first before buying if you could afford its maintenance in the future. Since these are specially designed printers, so it is important to know the product support as you may need it in running the printer and its return policy just in case the printers are not working as it should be.
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Basic Info About Laser Printers

A printer that uses a laser and the electrophotographic method to print a full page at a time. The laser "paints" a charged drum with light, to which toner is applied and then transferred onto paper (see electrophotographic for more details). Desktop laser printers use cut sheets like a copy machine. Large printers may use paper rolls that are cut after printing.

Resolution and Features

Laser printer resolution is typically from 300 to 1200 dpi, but specialty printers can reach imagesetter resolution of 2400 dpi. Options such as duplex printing (both sides) as well as collation, stapling and 3-hole punching may be available.

Small, Medium and Large

Low-end laser printers print in the 4 to 8 ppm range, while typical office workgroup units print 17 to 32 ppm. Midrange units print in the 40-60 ppm range, with a large jump to high-end printers that print from 150 to more than 1,000 ppm.

Color

Color lasers are slower than their monochrome counterparts, typically in the 4 to 10 ppm range. At the other end of the spectrum, high-end "digital printing presses" can print 70 or more duplexed color pages per minute, producing finished booklets and manuals. See color laser printer and digital printing.

Laser-Class

There are several technologies that fall into the laser category, but do not actually use a laser. LED printers use an array of LEDs to beam the image onto the drum, and electron beam imaging (ion deposition) creates the image with electricity rather than light. Solid ink printers propel a waxlike ink onto the drum.

History

In 1975, IBM introduced the first laser printer, the model 3800. Later, Siemens came out with the ND 2 and Xerox with the 9700. These self-contained printing presses were online to a mainframe or offline, accepting print image data on tape or disk.

In 1984, HP introduced the LaserJet, the first desktop laser printer, which rapidly became a huge success and a major part of the company's business. Desktop lasers made the clackety daisy wheel printers obsolete, but not dot matrix printers, which are still widely used for labels and multipart forms.
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Three Common Types of Laminators & Laminate Film

Lamination was invented by Dr. Morris M. Blum, DDS, a dentist in 1938 and dental laminate was the inspiration for the first lamination of a photograph. The three common types of laminators are pouch laminators, laminators and cold roll laminators.

Laminate film is generally categorized into standard thermal laminating films, low-temperature thermal laminating films, heat set (or heat-assisted) laminating films, pressure-sensitive films, and liquid laminate.

When using a laminating machine it is important to follow the instructions that comes with each machine. When laminating it is key to start from one end of the document and press slowly the sticky sheet and document together. And be careful about use something that will not accidentally cut through the plastic.

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