AGFA DRYSTAR AXYS Service Manual page 451

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Term
Null Modem Cable
Term
O
O.D.
Term
P
PACS
PCB
Pick-up Module
Pixel
PMS
Portex
Postscript
Print drum
Prompt
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Short description
A RS232 cable where all the wires are crossed over. This
way for example the receive wire at the one side is
connected with the transmit wire of the other side.
Short description
Optical Density
Short description
Picture Archiving and Communication System.
Printed Circuit Board.
Assembly in the printer that provides for the transport of a
film out of the input tray.
One of the individual dots that make up an image on the film.
E.g. a 10x12" film contains 4940 x 5900 pixels (adressable
area).
DICOM Print Management Service.
A device that provides DICOM PMS
(= provider), makes printing of DICOM images possible. A
device using DICOM PMS (= user) can control a DICOM
printer. DRYSTAR Axys is a DICOM PMS provider.
AGFA own operating system for medical devices.
Imperative programming language for the device
independent description of print pages which brings the
complete data (text, images, graphics) and their positions to
a standardized data structure. PostScript was developed in
1982 by the American company Adobe Systems and evolved
in the meantime to a quasi-standard. A further development
is PostScript Level 2, which has got among others things an
optimized data compression.
A rubber drum in the printer that guides the film along the
thermal print head.
A symbol that appears on a computer terminal screen.
Example: C:\>
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