Output: Printer Features

Categories of Output

Types of Output

Output is data that has been processed into useful form, now called Information.

What is Output?

Output: Intro

Input Processing Output Storage

	Hard copy: Printed on paper or other permanent media
	Soft copy: Displayed on screen or by other non-permanent means

Text documents including reports, letters, etc.	Graphics charts, graphs, pictures	Multimedia combination of text, graphics, video, audio

The most often used means of Output are the printer for hard copy and the computer screen for soft copy. Let's look at the features of each.

The job of a printer is to put on paper what you see on your monitor. A successful print job must be easy to do and give you a document that looks like what you saw on the screen. That makes for a happy day!

Monitor screens and printers do not use the same formatting rules. In the olden days of computers, the way something looked on the screen could be VERY different from how it would look when printed.

Early word processors didn't have a way to show what the printed version would look like. Nowdays a word processor that doesn't have print preview, would be laughed off the shelf. We expect to see a WYSIWYG view (What You See Is What You Get), where you see almost exactly what the document will look like in print, while you are still working on it.

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