Appendix 5 Chapter

Term

Meaning

 

 

Panasonic

An electronic image enhancement (Panasonic Super Smoothing) that will create a particular pattern for the

Super-

improvement of copy quality.

Smoothing

 

 

 

PC

The Personal Computer - Quite Simply a computer designed to be used by one person at a time.

 

 

PC Card

A credit card sized removable module for portable computers. PC Cards are used to attach modems,

 

network adapters, sound cards, radio transceivers, solid state disks and hard disks to a portable computer.

 

 

PCL

The page description language, which has become a de facto standard used in many printers and

(Printer

typesetters. PCL Level 6 streamlines the graphics and font commands, reducing the amount of information

Control

that has to be sent to the printer.

Language)

 

 

 

PDF

Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is a universal file format that preserves all the fonts, formatting,

 

graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.

 

 

Polling

The ability to retrieve a document from another machine.

 

 

Polling

A 4-digit programmed code that enables the security of a document being polled.

Password

 

 

 

POP (Post

POP refers to the way Email software such as Eudora or your machine gets Email from a mail server.

Office

You must always have a POP account that you tell your Email software to use to retrieve your mail.

Protocol)

 

 

 

Print

The methods used to determine how an incoming document will be reduced to print onto the paper loaded

Reduction

in your machine.

Mode

 

 

 

Protocol

A standard process, a set of rules & conditions that perform a particular function. A word which is very

 

common in PC & Internet Terminology.

 

Ex: FTP (File Transmission Protocol), IP Address (Internet Protocol Address), TCP/IP (Transmission

 

Control Protocol Internet Protocol), POP (Post Office Protocol)

 

 

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network. Network of interconnected switching equipment and transmission

(Public

facilities.

Switched

 

Telephone

 

Network)

 

 

 

Receiver

A 4-digit password that is checked before a document is received.

Password

 

 

 

Relay

A 3-digit code that identifies your machine is programmed in a relay network.

Address

 

 

 

Relay

A group of machines that communicate via a relay station.

Network

 

 

 

Resolution

This relates to the quality of a viewed image either on the PC Screen or printed output. For printed images

 

the resolutions is measured in dots per inch or DPI. The higher the DPI the better the resolution and better

 

image quality.

 

 

Router

A special purpose computer ( or software package) that handles the connection between 2 or more

(Gateway)

networks.

 

Gateways act like traffic cops, they spend their time looking at the destination addresses of the packets

 

passing through them and deciding which route to send them on.

 

 

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