| Glossary |
media | Materials upon which data is printed, such as envelopes, plain |
| paper, special paper, and transparency film. |
MicroWeave | Printing technology that produces images in fine increments to |
| reduce the possibility of banding. See also banding. |
parallel interface | See interface. |
print queue | Print jobs that are sent to the printer while it is busy are stored |
| in a waiting line, or print queue, until they can be printed. |
printable area | The area of a page on which the printer can print. It is smaller |
| than the physical size of the page because of margins. |
printer driver | See driver. |
proportional printing | Printing in which the width of the character varies from |
| character to character. For example, a capital W receives much |
| more space than a lowercase i. |
reset | To return a printer to its defaults either by sending a command, |
| an INIT signal, or by turning the printer off and then back on. |
resolution | The number of dots per inch used to represent an image. The |
| higher the resolution or print quality, the more detailed and |
| realistic the image. |
scalable fonts | Fonts that can be enlarged or reduced. |
| (bitmap fonts) can’t change in size. |
screen pattern | This feature prints shaded areas as they appear on screen, |
| instead of printing them as halftones. |
serial interface | See interface. |
spool manager | A software program that converts print data into codes that |
| your printer understands. |
status monitor | A software program that allows you to check the printer’s status, |
| such as the amount of ink remaining before printing. |