diffused
A halftoning or dithering method where dot patterns are used to represent blended images in millions of colors. The printer driver has four diffused settings: pencil art, high speed, images, and complex diagrams.
dithering See halftoning.
dpi
Dots per inch. The dpi measures the resolution. See also resolution.
driver
See printer driver.
economy printing
Printing in which images are printed with fewer dots to save ink.
ESC/P ®
Abbreviation for EPSON Standard Code for Printers. See also ESC/P 2.
ESC/P 2
The enhanced version of the ESC/P printer command language. Commands in this language produce
font
A style of type designated by a family name.
grayscale
A method of portraying color images in black and white.
halftoning
Methods of using tiny dot patterns to represent images.
hex dump
A troubleshooting feature that helps advanced users find the cause of communication problems between the printer and the computer. When the printer is in hex dump mode, it prints each code it receives in hexadecimal notation and ASCII characters. Also called data dump.
high speed printing
Images are printed in both directions for faster printing.
hue
The name of a color representing the color or its gradations.