Konica Minolta C550 manual Glossary, Term Definition

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6.3Glossary

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Term	Definition
10Base-T/100Base-TX/	An Ethernet standard, which is a cable consisting of twisted copper
1000Base-T	wire pairs. The transmission speed of 10Base-T is 10 Mbps, of
	100Base-TX is 100 Mbps, and of 1000Base-T is 1000 Mbps.
Active directory	A service that manages all information such as hardware resources
	for servers, clients, and printers on a network supported by Micro-
	soft and the attributes and access permissions of the users
Adobe® Flash®	Software developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated (formerly Mac-
	romedia, Inc.) and used to create data combining vector-graphic an-
	imation and sound, and the format of this data file. The bidirectional
	content can be manipulated using a keyboard and a mouse. The files
	can be kept relatively compact, and they can be accessed with the
	Web browser plug-in.
anonymous FTP	While normal FTP sites are protected by an account name and pass-
	word, this type of FTP site can be used by anyone without a pass-
	word by simply entering “anonymous” as the account name.
APOP	Abbreviation for Authenticated Post Office Protocol. An authentica-
	tion method with encrypted passwords, which results in increased
	safety, as compared to the usual unencrypted passwords used by
	POP to retrieve e-mail messages
AppleTalk	A generic name for the protocol suite developed by Apple Computer
	for computer networking
Auto IP	A function for automatically acquiring the IP address. If acquisition
	of the IP address failed with DHCP, an IP address is acquired from
	the address space of 169.254.0.0.
bit	Abbreviation for Binary Digit. The smallest unit of information (data
	quantity) on a computer or printer. Displays data using 0 or 1.
BMP	Abbreviation for Bitmap. A file format for saving image data which
	uses the .bmp extension. Commonly used on Windows platforms.
	You can specify the color depth from monochrome (2 values) to full
	color (16,777,216 colors). Images are not usually compressed when
	saved.
Bonjour	Macintosh network technology for automatically detecting devices
	connected to the network and for specifying settings. Previously
	called “Rendezvous”, the name was changed to “Bonjour” starting
	with Mac OS X v10.4.
Byte	Unit of information (data quantity) on a computer or printer. Config-
	ured as 1 byte equals 8 bits.
Client	A computer that uses the services provided by a server through a
	network
Compact PDF	Compression method for reducing the data amount using the PDF
	format when converting color documents to data.
	The highest compression efficiency is achieved by identifying the
	text and image regions and using the resolution and compression
	method most appropriate for each region.
	The compact PDF format can be selected when converting docu-
	ments to data using the scanning functions of this machine.

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