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Printer and Multifunction Device Components and

Technologies

The multifunction devices your average person encounters in daily life

probably sit on a desk, shelf, or countertop, and they tend to be fairly similar

in appearance. Because of this, when most of us think about MFDs, we tend

to picture small desktop all-in-one devices (which can usually be used as a

printer, scanner, copier, and fax machine) connected to a nearby computer

(see Figure 26-1 for an example).

Figure 26-1 All-in-one printer/scanner/fax machine/copier/iPhone dock

The reality is that these desktop devices, descendants of the desktop

printer and scanner, are just the low end of the market. As you head

upmarket, multifunction printers look more like the descendants of copy

machines and even small printing presses. Despite how different these highend

devices may look, they still share a core set of components—a printer

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