IBM Infoprint 6700 Series User Manual page 362

Appendix F
Default
Diagnostic
Direct Thermal
Media
Direct Thermal
Printing
DRAM
EPROM
Fanfold Media
Flash Memory
Font
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A value, parameter, attribute, or option that is
assigned by a program or system when another has
not been specified by the user.
Pertaining to the detection and isolation of a printer
malfunction or mistake.
Media coated with special chemicals that act as an
accelerator, acceptor dye, and binder. In Direct
Thermal mode, the heat from the selected
rectangular elements in the thermal printhead makes
direct contact with the media (no ribbon is used) and
causes a chemical reaction that creates the image on
the media.
A printing method in which no ribbon is used to
transfer data from the printhead to the media to
create an image. The thermal printhead selectively
heats small rectangular elements which make direct
contact with the coated media.
Dynamic Random Access Memory. Can be read
from or written to at any time. DRAM is volatile:
whatever is in DRAM is lost when power is turned off.
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory.
Programs, instructions, and routines permanently
stored in the printer that cannot be written to. Files in
EPROM are not lost when power is turned off.
(Resident fonts are fonts permanently stored in
EPROM and available at any time, via software
commands.)
Media supplied in a fanfold stack instead of a roll
format.
Nonvolatile memory. See Nonvolatile Memory.
A collection of printing characteristics for printing
alphanumeric characters, all of which combine to
produce a distinctive style of print.