GLOSSARIES |
GLOSSARIES
GLOSSARIES
Bar code
A code which represents alphanumeric characters by using a series of black and white stripes in different widths. Bar codes are used in various industrial fields: Manufacturing, Hospitals, Libraries, Retail, Transportation, Warehousing, etc. Reading bar codes is a fast and accurate means of capturing data while keyboard entry tends to be slow and inaccurate.
Batch mode
Issue mode that continuously prints media until the required number has been printed.
Black mark
A mark printed on the media enabling the printer to detect the correct start position of the media, helping to maintain constant print position.
Black mark sensor
A reflective sensor that detects the difference between a black mark and the print area to find the print start position.
DPI
Dots Per Inch
A unit used to express print density or resolution.
Expansion I/O interface
This interface allows the printer to be connected to an external device such as a applicator and to receive feed, print start, and pause signals from that device and to send back print, pause, and error status signals to the external device.
Feed gap sensor
A transmissive sensor that detects the difference between the gap between labels and the label itself, to find the print start position of the label.
Font
A complete set of alphanumeric characters in one style of type. E.g. Helvetica, Courier, Times
Gap
Distance from the bottom of one label to the top of the next
IPS
Inchs per second
A unit used to express print speed.
KB-80 keyboard interface
This interface allows the
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display
Installed on the operation panel and displays operation modes, error messages and so on.
Label
A type of media with adhesive backing supplied on a backing paper.
Media
Material on which images are printed by the printer. Label, tag paper, fanfold paper, perforated paper, etc.
PCMCIA interface
An optional interface board that may be installed in the
Printer driver
A software program that will convert the application program’s printing request into the language that the printer understands.
Print head element
The thermal print head consists of a single line of tiny resistive elements which when current is allowed to flow through them it heats up causing a small dot to be burned onto thermal paper or a small dot of ink to be transferred from a thermal ribbon to ordinary paper.