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Glossary
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DRPD
Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection. Distinctive Ring is a telephone company service which enables a
user to use a single telephone line to answer several different telephone numbers.
Duplex
A mechanism that will automatically flip over a sheet of paper so that the machine can print (or
scan) on both sides of the paper. A printer equipped with a Duplex can print double-sided of paper.
Duty Cycle
Duty cycle is the page quantity which does not affect printer performance for a month. Generally
the printer has the lifespan limitation such as pages per year. The lifespan means the average
capacity of print-outs, usually within the warranty period. For example, if the duty cycle is 48,000
pages per month assuming 20 working days, a printer limits 2,400 pages a day.
ECM
Error Correction Mode (ECM) is an optional transmission mode built into Class 1 fax machines or
fax modems. It automatically detects and corrects errors in the fax transmission process that are
sometimes caused by telephone line noise.
Emulation
Emulation is a technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another.
An emulator duplicates the functions of one system with a different system, so that the second
system behaves like the first system. Emulation focuses on exact reproduction of external
behavior, which is in contrast to simulation, which concerns an abstract model of the system being
simulated, often considering its internal state.
Ethernet
Ethernet is a frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). It
defines wiring and signaling for the physical layer, and frame formats and protocols for the media
access control (MAC)/data link layer of the OSI model. Ethernet is mostly standardized as IEEE
802.3. It has become the most widespread LAN technology in use during the 1990s to the present.
EtherTalk
A suite of protocols developed by Apple Computer for computer networking. It was included in the
original Macintosh (1984) and is now deprecated by Apple in favor of TCP/IP networking.
FDI
Foreign Device Interface (FDI) is a card installed inside the machine to allow a third party device
such as a coin operated device or a card reader. Those devices allow the pay-for-print service on
your machine.
FTP
A File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network
that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet).
Fuser Unit
The part of a laser printer that melts the toner onto the print media. It consists of a hot roller and
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