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How a printer works




Step 4: Printer Cable

The data travels over a special printer cable (also called a parallel cable or a Centronics cable), and then into a port on the printer.
1. Page Description Language
2. Printer Driver
3. Parallel Port
4. Printer Cable
5. Processor
6. Print Head

 

 
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