Appendix A. Abbreviations
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AFP | Advanced Function | IBM concept for print |
| Presentation | data formatting that |
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| defines how print control |
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| files should be structured. |
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| This is the current |
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| standard. |
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APL | A Programming Language |
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ASCII | American Standard Code |
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| for Information |
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| Interchange |
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CPI | Characters Per Inch |
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DCA | Document Content |
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DIMM | Dual Inline Memory |
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DIP | Dual Inline Packet |
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DSC | Print data stream | |
| Compatibility | generated by IBM |
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| mainframes. Contains |
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| almost exclusively text, |
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| i.e. text that could be |
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| produced by a typewriter. |
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FLASH | (Usually memory) | Memory chip able to |
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| store information |
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| permanently without |
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| power. Depending on the |
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| type, flash memory can |
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| be ‘written’ between |
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| 1.000 and 100.000 times. |
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FSL | Function Selection via the | Used to configure default |
| Line | values in MPI Tech |
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| interfaces for line data |
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| printing. Also used for |
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| print job specific |
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| formatting like bold and |
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| font change. |
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GFID | Global Font ID |
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HEX | Hexadecimal |
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