Oce 5250 User Manual page 165

HP-GL
HP-RTL
Ink tank
Media
Media sensor
Menu access
Origin
Output resolution
P1
P2
Parallel port
Parity
Pixel
Platen
Print
Print head
Purge station
Purging
Raster file
Rasterize
Glossary
Hewlett-Packard graphic language, a vector format de-
signed by Hewlett-Packard.
Hewlett-Packard raster transfer language, a raster format
designed by Hewlett-Packard.
Supplies the ink to the print head.
Material, such as paper and film, used by the printer to cre-
ate drawing images.
An optical sensor on the printer that detects the presence of
media.
Access to the printer control panel menu can be limited to
selected users by passwords. Three access levels are avail-
able.
The 0,0 point of the print.
The number of dots per inch (dpi) that the output device,
such as a printer, produces.
A scaling point that generally specifies the location of a
print's lower left corner when using HP-GL format.
A scaling point that generally specifies the location of a
print's upper right corner when using HP-GL format.
An interface designed to accept a complete byte of infor-
mation, including control characters, at the same time. The
parallel port on the Océ 5250 is the Centronics port.
An error checking scheme; parity may be even (even
number of ONE bits), odd (odd number of ONE bits) or
none.
Short for picture element. A pixel is one dot of a bitmap.
A surface for holding and guiding media while printing.
A drawing produced by the printer.
The print head on the inkjet cartridge contains very small
nozzles which fire droplets of ink onto media to produce a
print.
A place on the printer where the inkjet cartridge carriage is
stored when not in use and where the cartridge head is
cleaned and primed.
A process which cleans the inkjet cartridge head.
Also called image or bitmap. A picture composed of indi-
vidual dots. Raster images have large data files, compared
to vector files.
To break down an image into individual scan lines. Nearly
all modern graphics monitors and printers are raster-based
devices.
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