Mackie manual Introduction to Xprint, Xprint V7.0 from the user’s point of view

2 Introduction to Xprint V7.0

This chapter describes the concepts of Xprint V7.0, which you must be familiar with in order to use this product. It describes the objects comprising Xprint V7.0 and how these objects interact.

2.1Xprint V7.0 from the user’s point of view

From the point of view of the user, Xprint V7.0 represents a number of commands and a graphical interface used for printing files. For the user, the entire Xprint V7.0 system consists of a number of output devices on which documents can be produced (see figure below). Output devices can be printers, fax devices and e-mail addresses. For historical reasons, the word printer is often used instead of output device in the rest of this manual. Similarly, you should understand the term printing as producing an output.

Figure 1: The Xprint V7.0 system

As a user, the first things you deal with are the local workstation on which you are working, and the output devices of the Xprint V7.0 system. You can use any of the visible output devices for printing your documents. It may however be the

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