Epson Stylus Color 600Q User Manual page 90

Glossary
media Materials upon which data is printed, such as envelopes,
plain paper, special paper, and transparencies.
MicroWeave Printing technology that produces images in fine increments
to reduce the possibility of banding. See also banding.
monochrome This means printing with only one color of ink, which is
generally black ink.
parallel interface See interface.
print queue Print jobs that are sent to the printer while it is busy are stored
in a waiting line, or print queue, until they can be printed.
print server The computer connected to the printer. It receives the jobs
and then distributes them to the assigned printer. It also holds
extra print jobs while the printer is busy. See also print
queue.
printable area The area of a page on which the printer can print. It is smaller
than the physical size of the page due to margins.
printer driver See driver.
proportional printing Printing in which the width of the character varies from
character to character. For example, a capital W receives
much more space than a lowercase i. The result looks more
like a typeset book than a typewritten draft.
reset To return a printer to its defaults either by sending a
command, an signal or by turning the printer off and then
INIT
back on.
resolution The number of dots per inch used to represent an image.
RGB Red, green, and blue. These colors, in phosphors irradiated by
the computer monitor's electron gun, are used to create the
additive array of screen colors.
scalable fonts Fonts that can be enlarged or reduced. Nonscalable fonts are
called bitmap fonts and can't change in size.
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