Acronyms and Abbreviations
ac | alternating current |
ADB | Apple Desktop Bus |
AIX | Advanced Interactive Executive |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
APC | automatic photoemission control |
C | centigrade |
CCITT | Comité Consultatif International |
| Télégraphique et Téléphonique |
CCW | channel command word |
compact disk | |
CE | customer engineer |
CPU | central processing unit |
CRC | cyclical redundancy check |
CRD | |
CRT | |
CRU | customer replaceable unit |
dB | decibel |
dc | direct current |
DEV | developer |
dpi | dots per inch |
DRAM | dynamic random access memory |
DTP | desktop publishing |
EBCDIC | extended |
| interchange code |
EC | engineering change |
EEPROM | electronically erasable programmable |
| |
EPROM | erasable programmable |
| memory |
ERP | error recovery procedure |
F | Fahrenheit |
FIFO | first in first out |
FM | fan |
FRU | |
GDI | graphics device interface |
GND | ground |
GUI | graphical user interface |
H | fuser heater |
HVT | |
Hz | herz |
IC | integrated circuit |
I/O | input/output |
ipm | impressions per minute |
IPX | Internet package exchange |
IPX/SPX | Internet packet exchange/sequenced |
| packet exchange |
ISO | International Organization for |
| Standardization |
JIS | Japanese Industry Standard |
K | kilo |
KB | kilobyte |
kg | kilogram |
laser | light amplification by stimulated |
| emission of radiation |
LED | |
LGL | legal |
lpi | lines per inch |
LPR | local printer |
LPT | local port |
MB | megabyte |
mm | millimeter |
OHP | overhead projection |
OPC | organic photoconductor |
PC | personal computer, photoconductor |
PCB | printed circuit board |
printer description file | |
PEL | pixel |
pixel | picture element |
POST | |
ppi | pixels per inch |
ppm | pages per minute |
RAM | random access memory |
RH | relative humidity |
RIP | |
RISC | reduced instruction set computer |
ROM |
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