Banknote

A banknote (often known as a bill or simply a note) is a type of negotiable instrument, a promissory note made by a bank payable to the bearer on demand, used as money, and in many jurisdictions is legal tender. Along with coins, banknotes build up the cash or bearer forms of all modern money. With the exception of non-circulating high-value or precious metal commemorative issues, coins are commonly used for lower valued monetary units, while banknotes are used for higher values.

Barcode Printer

A barcode printer (or bar code printer) is a computer peripheral for printing barcode labels or tags that can be fond of to physical objects. Barcode printers are normally used to label cartons before shipment, or to label retail items with UPCs or EANs.

The most regular barcode printers employ one of two different printing technologies. Direct thermal printers use a printhead to produce heat that causes a chemical reaction in specially designed paper that turns the paper black. Thermal transfer printers also use heat, but instead of reacting the paper, the heat melts a waxy or resin material on a ribbon that runs over the label or tag material. The heat transfers ink starting the ribbon to the paper. Direct thermal printers are normally less expensive, but they produce labels that can become illegible if exposed to heat, direct sunlight, or chemical vapors.

Barcode printers are designed for various markets. Industrial barcode printers are used in big warehouses and manufacturing facilities. They have big paper capacities, operate faster and have a longer service life. For retail and office environments, desktop barcode printers are most regular.

Typewriter-Derived Printers

Several dissimilar computer printers were simply computer-controllable versions of existing electric typewriters. The Friden Flexowriter and IBM Selectric typewriter were the most-general examples. The Flexowriter printed with a conservative typebar mechanism while the Selectric used IBM's well-known "golf ball" printing mechanism. In either case, the letter form then struck a ribbon which was pressed beside the paper, printing one character at a time. The utmost speed of the Selectric printer (the faster of the two) was 15.5 characters per second.

Modchip

Xenium Mod Chip emotionally involved to an Xbox. The 2x6 header interfaces the chip among the LPC bus, while the red soldered wire overrides the original BIOS's D0 line.A Modchip, a portmanteau of 'Modification microchip', is a device used to circumvent the digital rights organization of many popular game consoles, including those made by Microsoft (Xbox series), Sony (PlayStation series), and Nintendo (GameCube, Wii) for the purposes of playing backup, imported, pirated, or homebrew games and/or applications. They are used regularly on systems that are CD/DVD-based due to the availability and low cost of blank media such as CD-Rs and DVD+/-Rs.

Almost all modern console gaming systems have hardware-based schemes which ensure that only formally sanctioned games may be used with the system and implement regional lockout similar to the scheme used in DVD movies. The particular technical nature of these DRM systems varies by system, and may include cryptographic signing (Xbox), intentionally unreadable sectors (PlayStation, Sega Saturn), custom optical media (Dreamcast), or some combination thereof. Modchips are available also for some DVD players, to defeat region code enforcement and user operation prohibitions.

Modchips in general require some level of technical ability to install. Most commonly, modchips must be soldered on to a console's motherboard, although there are no-solder install kits (which instead rely on the precise positioning of electrical contacts within the case) which work with some revisions of the PlayStation 2 and Xbox hardware.