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Appendix I: Glossary
5 percent page: A page of text, used to provide a standard for the number of pages
that can be printed using one toner cartridge. So named because the toner covers five
percent of the page.
Adobe Type 1: One of the two common file formats for fonts (the other is TrueType).
Requires a PostScript printer or Adobe Type Manager for fonts to print correctly.
Fonts can be scaled to any size.
Adobe Type Manager: A program which allows you to use Adobe Type 1 format
fonts on a non-PostScript printer. Also improves the on-screen display of fonts.
AppleTalk: A network communication protocol for connecting Apple computers and
other devices to share information. When used with an EtherNet network interface,
this is known as EtherTalk.
Apply button: A button, usually found in a dialog box, which makes any changes
specified in the dialog box. Unlike the OK button it does not close the dialog box. See
OK button, Close button, and Cancel button.
AccuGray: A GCC software technology that enables truer halftone reproduction by
counteracting the effects of dot gain and by adjusting the print engine's gray level
response to a 1 to 1 correspondence.
all ports active: Technology that allows you to connect several computers and/or
networks to one printer. Each port is able to accept print jobs without affecting the
others.
application (program): A program, such as Microsoft Word or PageMaker, used to
manipulate information.
baud: The speed at which data is transferred (bits/second).
bit: The smallest unit of computer information (a single binary digit).
bitmap: A representation of a shape in computer memory. It is achieved by dealing
with the image area as a series of very small squares; if any square is more than 50
percent covered by the image, that square is black (or, in color bitmaps, a color).
Bitmaps typically are made out of areas 1/72 or 1/96 of an inch square. Bitmap
images cannot easily be enlarged or reduced.
bitmap font: A font whose characters consist of the arrangement of bits into shapes.
These characters are used as screen fonts on computers that do not use scalable fonts,
and they tend to be jagged when printed on a high-resolution printer. Now largely
replaced by outline fonts.
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