Term | Meaning |
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nesting | Placing two or more pages |
nozzles | Located underneath the printhead. The nozzles direct the ink onto the page. |
palette | A set of logical pens defined by color and width. |
PJL | Printer Job Language. A programming language that controls jobs going to a |
| printer. |
parallel | A type of interface between computer and device. Generally faster than a |
interface | serial interface. |
PANTONE | The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® is an international standard for color |
| communication in the graphics art industry. |
pen | Even though the printer has no physical pens, the lines it draws match the |
| attributes of a pen. |
platen | The exterior part of the printer on which the paper rests before going into the |
| printer. |
printhead | The printhead is installed into the carriage assembly. It is the part that prints |
| the ink onto the paper. |
printing area | Page size minus margins. |
PostScript | Adobe PostScript is a computer language that describes the appearance of a |
| page, including elements such as text, graphics, and scanned images, to a |
| printer or other output device. |
queueing | Placing each print received by the device into memory for processing with |
| other prints. |
raster | A method for defining an image, in terms of dots rather than lines. Raster |
| data typically needs more memory than vector data. |