near letter quality (NLQ)

One of three print qualities available on your printer. Near letter quality reduces !the print speed and increases the number of dots per character to produce high-resolution characters. See also draft and high-speed draft.

number systems

Three number systems are commonly used with printers:

Decimal is base 10 and uses the digits 0 through 9. (This is the most familiar system.)

Hexadecimal (hex) is base 16 and uses the ‘digits 0 through 9 and the letters A through F. Programmers frequently use this numbering system. Any decimal number between 0 and 255 can

’be expressed by a two-digit hex number.

Binary is base 2 and uses only the digits 0 and 1. All infoxmation in computer systems is handled in binary form to represent electrical signals that are on or off. A binary digit is often called a bit; any decimal number been 0 and 255 can be expressed by an eight-bit binary number.

on line

When the printer is on line, it can communicate with the computer connected to it; The ON LINE button controls the printer’s on line/off line status.

paper bailThe part of the printer that holds the paper flat.

paper cutter

An optional device that automatically cuts off printed documents.

paper memory

A feature that produces high quality printing on your multi-part forms by usmg stored paper foxmat and thiclmess information to adjust the print head.

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