FARGO electronic 410 manual Glossary of Terms, Term Definition

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Glossary of Terms

Term	Definition
24-bit color	A color depth for an image that uses 8 bits for each color (red,
	blue, green) combining the possible 256 shades to provide a color
	depth of 16.7 million colors.
AC - Alternating	An electrical current that reverses its direction at regular intervals
Current	(typically 50 - 60 times a second).
Adhesion	The firm attachment of a material to the card surface, confirmed
	by using the Tape Test -pulling an applied piece of adhesive tape
	(Scotch 600 or equivelent) off the card at 1 sec/in to see if any
	material is pulled off by the tape.
Algebraic	A type of color matching that takes the colors value of pixels and
	applies them to an algebraic equation to adjust the levels of hue,
	saturation and brightness.
ANSI (American	The United States Representative to ISO, providing
National Standards	standardization for U.S. Manufactures prior or in addition, to
Institute)	acceptance by ISO.
ASCII (American	A standard for processing information in computer processors.
Standard Code for	An 8-bit character set of 255 decimal numbers, each assigned to
Information	numbers, letters, punctuation and special characters.
Interchange)
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