Glossary
banding The horizontal lines that sometimes appear in a printed image. See also MicroWeave.
buffer The portion of the printer’s memory used to store data before printing it.
character table A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols that provides you with the characters used in a particular language.
characters per inch (cpi) A measure of the size of text characters, sometimes referred to as pitch.
CMYK Cyan
ColorSync Macintosh software that is designed to help you get WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) output. This software prints colors as you see them on your screen.
default A value or setting that takes effect when the equipment is turned on, reset, or initialized.
dithering A halftoning method in which dots are arranged in an orderly pattern. Dithering works best for printing images with solid colors, such as charts and graphs. See also halftoning.
dpi Dots per inch. The dpi measures the resolution (print quality). See also resolution.
driver A software program that sends instructions to a computer peripheral to tell it what to do. For example, your printer driver accepts print data from your word processing application and sends instructions to the printer on how to print this data.