IBM S544-5343-03 manual Simm, Pem

pitch .

A

unit of measurement for the width rasterof afontprinted. A font in which each character is defined

character. It

identifies

the

number of

graphicby a chrasterractersbitmap.

per inch; for example, 10-pitch has ten graphic

characters

per

inch. Uniformly

spaced

fonts rasterare

pattern .

A series of picture elements (pels)

measured

in pitches. Contrast with point.

arranged in scan lines to

form

an

image.

point .

A

unit of measurement for describing

rastertypescansizes. .A technique of generating or recording the

There are 12 points to a

pica,

about

72

elementspoints

toofan an

image by a line-by-line sweep across the

inch.

entire

output

medium.

point

of

origin

.

The

location

of

the first

printresidentpositionfont .

Those

font

data

sets

that

are

resident

on

a

logical page. The

point

of

origin

is

usuallywithin

statedthe printer. They

usually reside

on

the

printer disk

terms

of

X and Y coordinates. The

point

media

(diskette or

hard

disk). These

font

sets

are

of origin

used

by a printer can be affected

by

factorsusuallysuch

ascommonlyprintableused fonts. Having them resident

area

and

forms

orientation.

reduces

font

load time. These fonts may also be used

during

offline

testing of

the

printer.

portrait

orientation .

Pertaining

to

a

display

or

hard

copy

with

greater height than width. Contrastscalablewithfont

.

A

font whose graphic characters are

landscape

orientation.

represented by mathematical equations and can be

sized

to different

heights.

PostScript .

(1) A page description language with

interactive graphics capabilities that was

developedSCS . See bySNA

character

string.

Adobe

Systems,

Inc.

(2)

An

interpretive

programming

SIMM .

Single inline

memory

module.

language that describes the appearance of text,

graphical

shapes,

and

sampled

images

on

a

printed

printing .

Printing

on

one

side

of

a

sheet

of

page

by

defining

a

print

file format

that

simplex

is

the

interface

paper. Contrast with duplex printing.

between document composition applications and raster

printing devices.

SNA

character

string

.

In SNA, a character string

preprinted

form

.

A

sheet

of

forms

containing

composed

of

EBCDIC

controls,

optionally

intermixed

with

a

preprinted

design

of

constant

data

with

end-user data, that is carried within a request/response

which

variable

data

can

be combined. See also forms.

unit.

Print-Error

Marker

(PEM)

.

Small,

black,

rectangular skew .

Refers

to

the paper going through the paper

marks

that

indicate

incorrectly

placed

data

path

at

a

slight

angle. This

will

cause

the

printing

lines

in

the

valid

properly.

printable

area.

to

not

be

aligned

print

position

.

The

physical

positions

of

the

stacker . A device used to hold paper or forms that

characters

constituting

a

print

line

relative

to

the

have been printed; the output device of a printer.

form.

print

quality .

The

quality

of

printed

output

storage .

(1)

The

retention

of

data

in

a

storage

device.

relative

to

(2)In word processing, a unit into which recorded text existing standards and in comparison with jobs printed

earlier.

can

be entered, in which it can be retained and

processed, and from which it can be retrieved. (3) A

print

surface

.

The

side

of a

form

that

device,

or

part of

a

device,

that

can

retain data.

receives

the

printed

image.

symbol

set

.

In PCL5e, a particular assignment of

hexadecimal identifiers to graphic characters.

raster . (1) In computer graphics, a predetermined

pattern

of lines

that provides

uniform coverage

of

a

.

The

position

of

text

as

a combination

display

space. (2)

The

coordinate

grid

text

orientation

that

divides

the

display

area

of

a

display

device. (3)

of print direction and baseline direction. See also

In

the

Network

orientation.

Printer 17, an on/off pattern of electrostatic images

produced

by

the

laser

print

head

under control

of

the

measure

of the

amount

of

work

character

generator.

throughput

.

A

performed by the printer over a period of time, for

example,

number

of

jobs

per

day.

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