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Glossary of Terms (continued)
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Printing | onto any plastic card with a smooth, clean, glossy PVC surface. |
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Dither | A system of distributing dots to control the hue, brightness and/or |
| saturation. In monochrome printing, this controls the brightness. In |
| color printing, dithering can supply a larger color gamut than non- |
| dithering. In the driver, dither modes can be selected to provide |
| better image quality depending on the type of image to be printed. |
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Dongle | A peripheral that attaches to a port to act as a key for an installed |
| application. The PC is able to run that application only when the |
| dongle is installed. Typically, it works as a |
| is connected in serial to the parallel cable. |
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Dot | The smallest unit of an image that the Printer is able to produce. |
| The smaller the dot, see dot pitch, the sharper the image. |
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Dot pitch | A measurement of image sharpness denoting the width of the dots |
| that make up a pixel. The smaller the pitch, the sharper the image. |
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Download | The transfer of a data file from one device to the other over a |
| network or cable, typically from the Internet to a PC. |
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DPI (Dot Per Inch) | A measurement of the Printer resolution indicating how many dots a |
| Printer can produce in a linear inch. |
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DRAM (Dynamic | A microchip based volatile memory storage device. The Printer |
Random Access | uses this to buffer a print job, transferred from the PC, until the |
Memory) | Printer controller is able to process the packet. |
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Driver | Software utility installed in Windows, that interfaces an application |
| to rasterize image data and include command codes so the Printer |
| can process the file. |
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Duplex Printing | Printing on the front and the back of the card. |
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