GLOSSARY OF TERMS
A4 size
A standard paper size used in Japan and other countries. Paper size is 210 x 297 mm (8.25 x 11.6 inches).
Abrasion counter
Indicates when belts/rollers should be replaced. The number of read document accumulates until an operator resets the counter. It should be reset when consumables are replaced.
ASCII
The acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
ASCII is a set of 256 codes (numbered 0 to 255) used to communicate information between a computer and another device such as scanner.
Automatic separation
The image processing method to detect the difference between text and photos and choose the threshold accordingly. Automatic separation allows the scanner to switch between line mode and half tone mode in one pass.
Automatic start mode
In this mode the reading operation is activated only by START command.
Refers to reading the
Bit
The smallest unit of information in computer memory. A bit is a single digit, either a 1 or a 0, in the binary numbering system.
Eight bits equal one byte.
Density
Refers to a measurement of the depth of the display in this manual.
Dither
Technique for producing halftone images representing the entire grayscale using two pixel levels black and white.
