Philips DP-C262 manual Appendix, Term, Meaning

Chapter 10 Appendix

Term	Meaning
PC	The Personal Computer - Quite Simply a computer designed to be used by one person at a time.
PC Card	A credit card sized removable module for portable computers. 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 many printers and
(Printer	typesetters. PCL Level 6 streamlines the graphics and font commands, reducing the amount of information
Control	that has to be sent to the printer.
Language)
PDF	Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) 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.
Polling	The ability to retrieve a document from another machine.
Polling	A 4-digit programmed code that enables the security of a document being polled.
Password
POP (Post	POP refers to the way Email software such as Eudora or your machine gets Email from a mail server.
Office	You must always have a POP account that you tell your Email software to use to retrieve your mail.
Protocol)
Print	The methods used to determine how an incoming document will be reduced to print onto the paper loaded
Reduction	in your machine.
Mode
Protocol	A standard process, a set of rules & conditions that perform a particular function. A word which is very
	common in PC & Internet Terminology.
	Ex: FTP (File Transmission Protocol), IP Address (Internet Protocol Address), TCP/IP (Transmission
	Control Protocol Internet Protocol), POP (Post Office Protocol)
PSTN	Public Switched Telephone Network. Network of interconnected switching equipment and transmission
(Public	facilities.
Switched
Telephone
Network)
Receiver	A 4-digit password that is checked before a document is received.
Password
Relay	A 3-digit code that identifies your machine is programmed in a relay network.
Address
Relay	A group of machines that communicate via a relay station.
Network
Resolution	This relates to the quality of a viewed image either on the PC Screen or printed output. For printed images
	the resolutions is measured in dots per inch or DPI. The higher the DPI the better the resolution and better
	image quality.
Router	A special purpose computer ( or software package) that handles the connection between 2 or more
(Gateway)	networks.
	Gateways act like traffic cops, they spend their time looking at the destination addresses of the packets
	passing through them and deciding which route to send them on.
SD Card	A flash memory card that provides secure storage for your machine, which is also popular with handheld
(Secure	devices such as digital cameras, cell-phones, and PDAs.
Digital
Memory
Card)
Selective	A function that can be set so that your unit will receive from only those machines programmed into your
Reception	dialer.

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