IBM S544-5351-03 manual MICR. Magnetic ink character recognition

MICR. Magnetic ink character recognition.

Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (MO:DCA-P). A strategic, architected, device-independent data stream for interchanging documents.

mixed-pitch font. A font that simulates a proportionally spaced font. The characters are in a limited set of pitches (for example, 10 pitch, 12 pitch, and 15 pitch).

monospaced font. A font in which the graphic characters have a uniform character increment. Synonymous with uniformly spaced font. Contrast with proportionally spaced font.

multiple-up printing. The printing of more than one page on a single surface of a sheet of paper.

N

nonimpact printer. A device in which printing is not the result of mechanical impacts; for example, heatÐsensitive printers, electrostatic printers, photographic printers. Contrast with impact printer.

O

object format. The format of AFP resources required for use by PSF. Contrast with source format.

offset stacking. A function that allows the printed output pages to be offset for easy separation of the print jobs.

Operating System/2 (OS/2). An IBM licensed program that can be used as the operating system for the PS/2 processor series.

Operating System/400 (OS/400). An IBM licensed program that can be used as the operating system for the iSeries processor series.

orientation. (1) The angle between the top or bottom edge of the page and the baselines within a column that is measured in a clockwise direction. (2) The rotation of an element relative to a fixed reference.

outline font. A font whose graphic character shapes are defined mathematically rather than by raster patterns.

output device. A machine used to print, display, or store the result of data processing.

overlay. A resource that can contain text, image, graphics, and bar code data. An overlay is electronically created in the host processor, stored in a library, and can be merged electronically with variable data on a sheet during printing. See also preprinted form and forms flash.

Overlay Generation Language/370 (OGL/370). An IBM licensed program used to create overlays.

P

page. A collection of data that can be printed on a physical sheet of paper.

page definition. A resource that contains a set of formatting controls for printing logical pages of data. Includes controls for number of lines per printed sheet, font selection, print direction, and mapping individual fields in the data to positions on the printed sheets.

page format. (1) A subset of a page definition that contains controls governing the arrangement of text on a page. (2) In APU, the object that contains all of the instructions for formatting a print job. A print definition can name one or more page formats.

page mode. The mode of operation in which the printer can accept a page of data at a time from a host processor to be printed on an all-points addressable output device. Data may consist of pages that arecomposed of text, images, overlays, or page segments.

page printer. Any of a class of printers that accepts MO:DCA-P pages, constructed of composed text and images, among other things. Contrast with line printer.

Page Printer Formatting Aid. An IBM licensed program that you can use to create and store form definitions and page definitions.

page segment. A resource that contains composed text and images, prepared before formatting and included during printing.

pel. The smallest area that can be individually toned on a printing medium or on a display surface.

pel density. The number of pels per unit of linear measurement.

physical page. The side of a sheet of paper that is to be printed on.

pica. A unit of about 1/6 inch used in measuring typographical material.

picture element. An element of a raster pattern about which a toned area on the photoconductor might appear. See also raster pattern. Synonym for pel.

pitch. A unit of measurement for the width of a printed character, reflecting the number of times a graphic character can be set in 1 linear inch; for example, 10-pitch has 10 graphic characters per inch. Uniformly spaced fonts are measured in pitch. Contrast with point.

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