Week 6: Printers and Peripheral Systems

210 instructional minutes | five 42-minute lessons

This week treats printers, scanners, and peripherals as complete hardware, driver, network, application, maintenance, and security systems.

Lesson sequence

1. Printer Technologies and Deployment Decisions
2. Print Mechanisms and Maintenance
3. Deploy, Share, Scan, and Secure
4. Printer Deployment and Peripheral Support Lab
5. Printer Troubleshooting Challenge

Evidence you will produce

• printer technology/workload comparison;
• print-path and maintenance map;
• driver/PCL/PostScript/deployment/share/scan/security record;
• peripheral support path;
• complete printer troubleshooting service ticket.

A+ alignment

Primary coverage: Core 1 objectives 3.7, 3.8, and 5.6.

Safety boundary

Power down and cool equipment before approved service. Avoid hot fusers, moving mechanisms, and electrical hazards, and follow device-specific maintenance procedures.