Types of Output Devices

Output Devices

Output Devices are the signals or data sent from a computer system and presented to the user in a suitable format. However though CD-ROM and DVDs are not output devices, those are considered to be storage devices.

Computer output devices can be organized into four simple categories, audio, graphics, text, and video. Audio is music, speech, or any other sound. Graphics are digital representations of non-text information such as drawings, charts, photographs, and animation. Text consists of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, or any other symbol that is used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs. Video consists of images played back at speeds to provide the appearance of full motion.

Without output devices this world would be back in time before there was any type of electronics. Output devices let us enjoy listening to music, watch movies, use the GPS on our smartphones when we get lost, and even let us use printers to make 3D models and produce braille on products for people that are blind. I honestly couldn’t think of how it must have been living in a world without all these technologies that make life that much simpler.

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Types of output devices and what they do.

• 3D Printer - A person must first create a 3D image of the item they want printed using a software program from there the computers sends signals to the 3D printer which uses laser sintering, involves heating and solidifying granular material with a laser in a specific pattern for each slice before repeating over and over again with new layers.

• Braille embosser - A braille embosser is an impact printer that renders text as tactile braille cells.

• GPS - GPS works by sending signals to a satellite out in space and...

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...o have existed, so I believe that the future will have many of computer output devices that will put these output devices to shame.

Learning about computer output devices was very interesting and I learned a lot about computers then I knew before. I think the future is going to have some very amazing devices that are going to blow these devices out of the water.

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