Glossary - IBM LB20 User Manual

7 GLOSSARY

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A
standardized set of machine-readable 7 or 8-bit codes
consisting of control codes and codes representing
alphanumeric characters and symbols.
AWG American Wire Gauge
Bi-directional where printing occurs from left to right and from right to
printing left.
Baud rate The speed of data transmission measured in bits per second.
Bit a single character of a language having just two characters,
binary digits 0 or 1.
Byte a group of bits of information.
CPI Character Per Inch - the spacing of characters in a line.
Sometimes referred to as 'pitch' or 'density'.
CPS Characters Per Second.
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CTR Confidence Test Routine. Performed by the printer at
power-on
CTS See RTS/CTS.
Character Set a table of characters, each associated with an ASCII code,
in a given font that can be printed.
Ctrl Control
DCD Data Carrier Detect
DPI Dots Per Inch.
Draft printing in single strike mode where one dot impact is
delivered.
DSR Data Set Ready.
DTR Data Terminal Ready.
Double Height where characters are printed in two passes twice their
normal height.
Double strike where text is printed in two passes with no horizontal or
vertical offset.
Double width See expanded.
EU European Union
EIA Electronic Industries Association. Sets standards for the
Glossary 7-1