Your facilities department is having an issue printing some of their complex blueprints to a network laser printer. When they pick up their output, the top half shows their blueprint but the bottom half of the page is completely blank. Which of these is the most likely cause of this issue?
A) The network is faulty
B) The laser printer is out of toner
C) The blueprinting application is faulty
D) The laser printer is out of memory
E) The blueprints are for only one side of a duplex building
The answer: D) The laser printer is out of memory
Before a laser printer can begin the printing process, it must “build” a representation of the output in the memory of the printer. Complex graphics take more memory than simple text files, and very complex images can cause a printer to run out of memory and output only part of the page image.
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