Overlay
Refers to printing in which data that is common to all the pages, such as a logo, titles or table structure, is overlaid with the print data from the application.
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Paper feed
The act of guiding a sheet of paper into the printer’s paper path.
Paper jam
A situation created when paper becomes caught along the paper path. You must remove jammed paper before you can continue printing.
Paper path
The route that paper travels through the printer.
Paper Source
Source of paper feed. The machine has a cassette and a
Paper Type
All kinds of paper (plain paper, coloured paper, recycled paper, transparencies, tracing paper, thick paper, labels, envelopes, postcards etc.) are grouped under several Paper Types. You can access this setting from the Paper Type field on the Paper Source tab of the Printer Properties dialog screen.
Parallel interface
An interface that transmits multiple bits simultaneously (usually in
Parallel interface cable
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Stands for Portable Document Format. A widely used format for transmitting and viewing documents on computers. PDF documents can be read or printed out with Adobe’s Acrobat Reader program.
Peer-to-peer connection
A network connection between a computer and a printer (or other device) that does not go through a server. See also Server, Client.
Physical RAM
Random access memory (RAM) that is physically present in the computer in the form of memory chips, as opposed to virtual memory. See also Virtual Memory.
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Glossary