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The scanner is an input or output peripheral, or is it mixed
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The scanner (which is exclusively a scanner and not a printer) is an input device, because the main flow of data goes from the scanner to the computer: when you scan a document, it is digitized and passed as an image to the computer.
On the other hand, scanners that are also printers are mixed peripherals, they are called multifunction printers.
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• Peripheral
• Mixed peripheral
• Scanner
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