Photo

The document setting you use for sending or copying documents with intermediate tones, such as photographs.

Platen

The printer component that holds the paper in position during ink transfer.

Portrait orientation

Refers to printing across the width of the page (letter style). This is the opposite of landscape orientation, which is printing across the length of the page.

Print head

The printing mechanism that contains print nozzles and ejects the ink for printing.

Print head capping

An automatic protection function that prevents the BJ cartridge print head unit and BJ cartridges from drying out or becoming clogged with dust.

Printable area

The area of a sheet of paper on which a printer can reproduce text or graphics (the printing area is smaller than the paper).

Printer driver

Software that sends printing instructions to a printer (in this case, the MultiPASS C70). The printer driver keeps track of the attributes of a printer and the codes the program must send to access those attributes.

Pulse

See Rotary pulse.

G-10

Glossary