Panasonic Workio DP-C305 Operating Instructions Manual page 108

Glossary
Hard Disk Drive
Install
Internet
Internet FAX
JPEG
Key Name
Keypad
LAN
(Local Area Network)
LCD
Memory
Modem
Module
Network
PC
PCMCIA/PC Card
PCL
(Printer Control Language)
PDF
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The physical component of a PC which performs the basic operations on the hard
disk including rotating the disk and reading/writing data to the disk.
To add hardware or load a software application onto your multi-functional machine/
computer.
The Internet is a vast collection of inter-connected networks that all use the TCP/IP
protocols, on which you can send an electronic email, chat to people electronically
or search for information on almost any subject you care to think of. Quite simply it is
a "network of computer networks".
The Internet fax uses the Internet to send faxes. The transmission and reception
take place via store-and-forward mode on the Internet using Internet email. In store-
and-forward mode the facsimile protocol stops at the gateway to the Internet and is
reestablished at the gateway leaving the Internet.
Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group and pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a
lossy compression technique for color images. Although it can reduce file size to
about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression. JPEG is a
graphical format that is widely used in WWW pages.
An alternate to the station name that can be programmed for each Address Book
dialing key. (By default it displays the first 15 characters of the station name.)
A group of numeric keys located on your Control Panel.
A Local Area Network is a computer network system and printer limited to an
immediate area, such as an Office, Factory, and University used to integrate and
exchange data.
Liquid Crystal Display . The display area of your machine.
The term memory identifies data storage that comes in the form of chips, which
holds information that your machine needs to use. The word storage is used for
memory that exists on disks.
A device that converts signals from your fax machine into signals that can be
transmitted over telephone lines.
A self-contained hardware or software component that interacts with a larger system.
Hardware modules are often made to plug into a main system. Program modules
are designed to handle a specific task within a larger program.
Any time you connect 2 or more computers together so that they can share resources,
you have a computer network. Connect 2 or more networks together and you have
an internet.
The Personal Computer - Quite Simply a computer designed to be used by one
person at a time.
A credit card sized removable module for portable computers. PCMCIA/PC Cards
are used to attach modems, network adapters, sound cards, radio transceivers,
solid state disks, and hard disks to a portable computer.
The page description language, which has become a de facto standard used in
many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 6 streamlines the graphics and font
commands, reducing the amount of information that has to be sent to the printer.
Adobe Portable Document Format is a universal file format that preserves all the
fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the
application and platform used to create it.