INPUT AND OUTPUT

DEVICES
Living in the IT ERA
INPUT DEVICE
An input device is a piece of
computer hardware equipment
used to provide data and
control signals to an
information processing system
such us computer or
information appliance.
Some of the
major input
devices
Keyboard
Mouse
Joystick
OMR (optical mark
reader)
Lightpen
Point of scale terminal
(pos terminal)
BCR (bar code reader)
OCR (optical character
reader)
MICR (magnetic ink
character reader)
KEYBOARD
 keyboard is a flat piece
of plastic board many
buttons arranged on it.
These buttons are called
keys. The keyboard help
in inputting the data to
the computer. There are
following functions key on
a keyboard like F1 to F12,
numeric keys 0 to 9 and
alphabet keys A to Z. It
consists caps lock key,
num lock, shift key, back
space key, space bar key
and enter key etc.
 Standard keys on a
keyboard is 101
 KEYBOARD
 keyboard is a flat piece of plastic
board many buttons arranged on it.
These buttons are called keys. The
keyboard help in inputting the data
to the computer. There are
following functions key on a
keyboard like F1 to F12, numeric
keys 0 to 9 and alphabet keys A to
Z. It consists caps lock key, num
lock, shift key, back space key,
space bar key and enter key etc.
Standard keys on a keyboard is 101
 Mouse
 mouse is a pointing device it
consist three buttons. Left
button, right button, and scroll
button. Left button is used to
select an object and scroll button
is used to excess the properties
of an object and scroll button is
used to scrolling the page up and
down
Mouse are basically used in
desktop computer system when
placed on a fixed space than we
use mouse
 Joystick
 joystick is a pointing device
most common used to play
animated games on a micro
computer. Joystick works on
the same principal as a
trackball. Joysticks are often
used to control video games
and usually have one or
more push buttons whose
state can also be read by
the computer.
 Optical mark reader
Opitcal mark reader is a special
optical scanner device which can be
used to recognize the type of mark
made by pencil or pen . This device
is used as academic and
examination centres to grade
aptitude test. Where candidate mark
the correct answers on a special
sheet of paper having multiple
circles. These answer sheets are the
directly read by the optical mark
reader and the corresponding
information is sent to a CPU for
processing
 Light pen
Light pen is a pointing device that
can be a used to choose a
displayed menu option or to draw
picture on the screen. It consist of a
photocell and an optical system
placed in a small tube as the user
moves tip on the pen over the
surface. It is able to detect the light
coming from a limited field of view.
A light pen is also useful for
graphic, the user at computer
added design terminal can draw
directly on the screen with the pen
Point of scale
terminal (pos terminal
It is a higher version of the bar
code reader, also used in
departmental stores. In this case,
salesman move about, carrying
with them a barcode reader and a
laptop computer. When a
customer want to purchase
something, the salesman with the
aid of the barcode reader and the
laptop computer, decodes the
detailed information in printed on
the barcode of that product.
BCR (bar code reader)
Various commodities available in
the market have a sequence of
black and white lines of varying
thickness, closely placed together
printed on the cover. These lines
which are known as barcodes.
Barcodes contains the various
information about the product,
e.g. name of the product,
manufacturing date, producer
name, expiry date, cost of
production etc.
OCR (optical character
reader)
Optical character reader is a optical
scanner used to scan documents place
under them by examining each
character present in the document and
matching it the character may be either
typed or hand return. In case of hand
return characters special care has to be
taken to ensure that the characters are
of standard size, line making up the
character are connected.
OCR devices are particularly used for
large volume application such as reading
zip codes in postal service and printing
bill of credit card.
MICR(magnetic ink
character reader)
It is popularly used in
banks for verifying
important documents
like drafts, cheques etc.
at the bottom side of
such documents, a set of
symbols are printed with
magnetized ink
 OUTPUT DEVICE
An output device is any device used to
send data from a computer to
another device or user. Most computer
data output that is meant for humans
is in the form of audio or video. They
perform the following function:

Receive result from memory

Covert data into human readable form
Display result to the user
Different types of output
device
Monitor
Printer
Impact printer
Non-impact printer
Speaker and headsets
Plotter
Multimedia projecter
Monitor
The monitor is the most
common and the most
important output device. It is
also called a visual display unit.
The output viewed on a monitor
is called a soft copy. The
monitor is a visual display
device to present output
information in the form of text,
graphic, or video on the
monitor screen.
Impact printer
The printer that print the
character by striking
against the ribbon and into
the paper is called impact
printer. These are two
types of impact printer:
 character printer
 Line printer
Character printer
These printer print one
character at a time is
called character
printer. For example
dot matrix printer. They
form character and all
kind of image as
pattern or dots.
Line printer
These printer print one line
at a time. So it is called as
line printer. These printer
use impact technology.
There is mechanical contact
between head and a paper.
These are first printer
having speed in the range of
3000 lines per minutes.
Non- impact printer
Non impact printer that prints
the character without striking
against the ribbon and on the
paper is called non impact
printer. These printer print a
complete page at a time so also
called page printer. There are
two types of non impact printer.
 Inkjet printer
 Laser printer
Inkjet printer
These printer prints the
character by spraying
the paper with
electrically charged ink.
They give better quality
than character printer.
They are cheaper than
laser printer.
Laser printer
These are based on
laser technology with
high speed and high
quality printing. In
these printer a laser
beam is used to write
the image on a paper.
Speaker and headset
Speaker and headsets
produced sound output.
We can listen recorded
voices, sounds or music
with help of the speaker
or headset. Speaker
produce sound output
with the help of sound
card.
Plotter
A plotter is an output device
used to produce image quality
graphics in a variety of colors.
Plotter are used to print large
maps, architectural drawings,
graphs and charts. Plotter are
used to draw different design
of building or internal
structure of machines.
Plotters offer the fastest way
to efficiently produce very
large drawing or color high
resolution graphics. Engineers
Drum plotter
In drum plotter both
paper and drum move to
produce the output. The
plotter was the first
output device to print
graphic ang large
engineering drawings.
Flatbed plotter
In this plotter the
paper is fixed and
drum moves. Flatbed
plotters have a large
horizontal surface on
which the paper is
placed.
 Multimedia projector
Multimedia projector is used to
produce computer output on a big
screen. These are used in meeting
rooms or in classroom of educational
institutes. Since the output produced
by multimedia projector is displayed
on a large screen, it can be viewed
by a large number of people in a
hall, meeting/conference room or a
classroom. Mostly teachers used
data projector in class room for
delivering lectures