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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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boil the ink; this creates a tiny air bubble that ejects a droplet of ink onto the

paper, thus creating a portion of the image (see Figure 26-6).

Figure 26-6 Detail of the inkjet printhead

The ink is stored in special small containers called ink cartridges. Older

inkjet printers had two cartridges: one for black ink and another for colored

ink. The color cartridge had separate compartments for cyan (blue), magenta

(red), and yellow ink, to print colors by using a method known as CMYK

(you’ll read more about CMYK later in this chapter). If your color cartridge

ran out of one of the colors, you had to purchase a whole new color cartridge

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