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XEROX 4850/4890 HIGHLIGHT COLOR LPS FORMS CREATION REFERENCE
overprint ratio Maximum number of variable data and form characters that can
be intersected by a single scan line.
page end Command character (form feed) to terminate the current page.
orientation Direction that data is printed on a report. Refer to landscape
page orientation and portrait page orientation.
pagination Process of separating text into pages.
palette Predefined set of colors or inks. Different versions are provided
with the printer and with some application software packages.
parameter Part of a command, other than the keyword. See keyword.
job On systems with XPAF, a job that is sent directly from a host to a
Xerox printer through XPAF without undergoing XPAF processing.
parse To read or interpret a command; to build up a parameter list
from information within a command.
PCC Printer carriage control.
PDE Page description entry.
PDL Print description language. Language used to describe printing
jobs to a laser printing system. PDL describes the input (type,
format, characteristics), performs the processing functions
(logical processing), and describes the output (type, format, font
selection, accounting options).
PE Phase encoded.
physical page Actual page size your printer uses to print a form.
pica 1. Unit of measurement equal to twelve points or approximately
1/6 inch. 2. A 10-pitch typeface having ten characters per inch
and 12 points in height. See also point.
pitch Width of a fixed-pitch font expressed in characters per horizontal
inch.
pixel Acronym for picture element. Smallest addressable point of a
bitmapped screen that can be independently assigned color and
intensity.
point In Xerox laser printing systems, a unit of measurement equal to
0.0139 inch. Points are always used to express type, size, and
leading. There are 12 points to a pica and about 72 points to an
inch. See also pica.
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