FARGO electronic 410 manual Glossary of Terms

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Glossary of Terms (continued)

Term	Definition
Full bleed	Printing that covers the entire card surface.
Gamma	The degree of contrast of an image or the display of a monitor
	determined by the slope of a characteristic curve relating optical
	density to relative log exposure.
Graphical Device	A Windows standard for protocol between Drivers and
Interface (GDI)	applications and the Windows interface. An application uses a
	Driver to rasterize the data in the format necessary for the Printer
	but also for the Windows interface to execute the print
	commands.
Gray Scale	A graduation through the various brightness levels from white to
	black.
Halftoning	A process in monochrome printing that simulates continuous tone
	by using changes to the distribution of single dots. Increasing the
	number of dots in a given area increases the darkness even
	though the individual dots stay the same size.
Hard Drive	A high capacity storage device in a PC consisting of non-
	removable magnetically encodable platters.
Hardware	Physical components of a system such as the Printer, the PC, the
	power supply.
HiCo (High	The coercivity value of magnetic media between 2500 - 4000 Oe
Coercivity)	(ISO 7811-6). Fargo's High Coercivity encodes at 2750 Oe.
HTML (HyperText	A standard protocol used to format text files for use in a browser
Markup Language)	or on the Internet.
HTTP (HyperText	A standard protocol by which computers can transfer data,
Transfer Protocol)	compatible through multiple platforms.
IC (Integrated Circuit)	An electronic device that contains many individual circuits
	interconnected and placed within a discrete package.
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