Intermec 4630 User Manual page 124

4630 and 4830 Bar Code Label Printers User's Manual
density
The amount of information encoded in a given area.
direct thermal
A method of thermal printing in which images are printed when heat from the
thermal printhead produces a black mark on the media.
display
Two-line screen on the control panel that displays messages such as printer
status, menus, commands, and errors.
drag
A method of bar code printing in which all the bars are printed at once, in
parallel. The bar code appears across the width of the label.
EAN
European Article Numbering. A bar code used widely in Europe.
field
A graphic element that is the basic unit of a format. The four basic types of
fields are bar code, graphic, line, and text.
fixed data field
Bar code and text fields that never vary from one label to the next; the data in a
fixed field is a permanent part of the format.
fixed format
A format in which the data never varies from one label to the next such as a
return address label. A fixed format needs no additional data to print a label.
font
A character set of a given type size and style. See also Character Set.
font file
See Soft Font.
form feed
A printer control panel button that advances the media.
format file
The arrangement of fields on a label.
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