Glossary - Epson Stylus Photo User Manual

Glossary

banding The horizontal lines that sometimes appear in a printed image.
See also MicroWeave.
bidirectional Moving the print head from left to right and right to left, for
faster output.
buffer The portion of the printer's memory used to store data before
printing it.
character table A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols that provides you
with the characters used in a particular language.
CMYK Cyan (blue-green), magenta, yellow, and black. These colored
inks are used to create printed colors. The addition of light
magenta and light cyan increases the accuracy of photographic
images for virtual continuous-tone printing.
ColorSync Macintosh software that is designed to help you get WYSIWIG
(what you see is what you get) output. This software prints
colors as you see them on your screen.
default A value or setting that takes effect when the equipment is
turned on, reset, or initialized.
dithering A halftoning method in which dots are arranged in an orderly
pattern. Dithering works best for printing images with solid
colors, such as charts and graphs. See also halftoning.
dpi Dots per inch. The dpi measures the resolution. See also
resolution.
driver A software program that sends instructions to a computer
device to tell it what to do. For example, your printer driver
accepts print data from your image processing application and
sends instructions to the printer on how to print this data.
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