GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Protocol

A set of instructions that control how data is transmitted

 

between devices such as a computer and printer.

Rear feed

The feeding of paper through the tractor unit attached at the

 

rear of the printer.

Resident fonts

Fonts present (resident) in the printer’s permanent memory.

 

For this printer, the resident fonts are Courier 10, Prestige Elite

 

12, Pica 10, OCR-B 10, OCR-A, Boldface PS, Compressed font,

 

Correspondence, and Draft. Unlike soft fonts, resident fonts

 

can always be accessed.

RS-232C interface Self-test

A type of serial interface. See Serial interface.

A test that determines whether the printer is working correctly. Test pages are printed to show print quality and verify whether all characters print. The self-test only tests the printer. It does not test how thecomputer works with the printer.

Serial interface

Setup mode

Shadow printing

Single sheets

A standard computer interface. Information is transferred between devices over a single wire (although other wires are used for control). A serial interface can use an interface cable greater than 3 meters (10 feet). A long cable is often necessary in networking environments, where the printer may be shared.

One of the printer’s two operating modes. In setup mode, the control panel can be used to select the printer default settings, such as print features, hardware options, and top-of-form.

Setup mode also provides some diagnostic functions. See also Normal mode.

Shadow printing prints characters twice for emphasis. Characters printed the second time are shifted slightly to the right.

Single sheets are sheets of paper, envelopes, and noncontinuous multipart forms fed into the printer using the paper table or optional cut sheet feeder. Single sheets are also called cut sheets.

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