Glossary

Appendix

Hard Disk Drive

The physical component of a PC which performs the basic operations on the hard

 

disk including rotating the disk and reading/writing data to the disk.

Install

To add hardware or load a software application onto your multi-functional machine/

 

computer.

Internet

The Internet is a vast collection of inter-connected networks that all use the TCP/IP

 

protocols, on which you can send an electronic email, chat to people electronically

 

or search for information on almost any subject you care to think of. Quite simply it is

 

a “network of computer networks”.

Internet FAX

The Internet fax uses the Internet to send faxes. The transmission and reception

 

take place via store-and-forward mode on the Internet using Internet email. In store-

 

and-forward mode the facsimile protocol stops at the gateway to the Internet and is

 

reestablished at the gateway leaving the Internet.

JPEG

Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group and pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a

 

lossy compression technique for color images. Although it can reduce file size to

 

about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression. JPEG is a

 

graphical format that is widely used in WWW pages.

Key Name

An alternate to the station name that can be programmed for each Address Book

 

dialing key. (By default it displays the first 15 characters of the station name.)

Keypad

A group of numeric keys located on your Control Panel.

LAN

A Local Area Network is a computer network system and printer limited to an

(Local Area Network)

immediate area, such as an Office, Factory, and University used to integrate and

 

exchange data.

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display. The display area of your machine.

Memory

The term memory identifies data storage that comes in the form of chips, which

 

holds information that your machine needs to use. The word storage is used for

 

memory that exists on disks.

Modem

A device that converts signals from your fax machine into signals that can be

 

transmitted over telephone lines.

Module

A self-contained hardware or software component that interacts with a larger system.

 

Hardware modules are often made to plug into a main system. Program modules

 

are designed to handle a specific task within a larger program.

Network

Any time you connect 2 or more computers together so that they can share resources,

 

you have a computer network. Connect 2 or more networks together and you have

 

an internet.

PC

The Personal Computer - Quite Simply a computer designed to be used by one

 

person at a time.

PCMCIA/PC Card

A credit card sized removable module for portable computers. PCMCIA/PC Cards

 

are used to attach modems, network adapters, sound cards, radio transceivers,

 

solid state disks, and hard disks to a portable computer.

PCL

The page description language, which has become a de facto standard used in

(Printer Control Language)

many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 6 streamlines the graphics and font

 

commands, reducing the amount of information that has to be sent to the printer.

PDF

Adobe Portable Document Format is a universal file format that preserves all the

 

fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the

 

application and platform used to create it.

 

 

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