Several terms having special meaning within the context of this manual are listed below:
Application | Applications are considered the programs that |
| run on a computer. We refer to applications in |
| this manual as PageMaker, Photoshop, etc. |
Bitmap | Bitmaps are images preprocessed at a fixed |
| resolution for a certain monitor or printer. |
CPSI | Configurable PostScript Interpreter. This Adobe |
| Level 2 PostScript interpreter runs on a PC |
| rather than on a hardware peripheral device. |
| PowerRIP uses this interpreter to render a |
| raster image. |
CPU | The processor inside the computer. Pentium is |
| faster than 486. |
EPS | Ecapsulated PostScript. This is a file type that |
| may contain complex graphics. It is designed as |
| a universal format to include complex graphics |
| in other applications. |
Imaging Device | A device capable of printing an image on a |
| physical medium, e.g., a printer, imagesetter, |
| ink jet printer, etc. |
Interpreter | A set of software functions to convert PostScript |
| language operators and operands into a raster |
| image. PowerRIP uses the CPSI interpreter. |
Network | Ethernet cabling and required software to link |
| computers to each other. |
PostScript | An interpretive programming language, devel- |
| oped by Adobe, used to describe the text, |
| graphics, and image content of a document. |
Raster Image | A sequential bitmap composing an image. For |
| each image pixel, there is a corresponding |
| device pixel. |
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