8REFERENCE MATERIAL
2. GLOSSARY
Most terms are explained on the pages where they occur (see the contents and the index).
This glossary explains some terms that were not explained fully in the text.
ADF (Automatic Document Feeder):
Adevice which feeds the pages of amultipage document one at atime, in the order that you arranged
the pages in the stack.
Batch Numbering (Page Count):
This is away of numbering pages that allows you to check whether you received all pages, and if not,
which ones are missing. For example, if you receive two pages with PI /3 printed on one and p2/3 on
the other, you have just received athree-page document but page 3 didn’t make it.
BPS (Bits Per Second):
This is the data communication rate. In G3 mode, your fax terminal digitizes documents, transforming
them into bits (an average page will produce about 200,000 of them), and then sends them out at atop
speed of 14,400 bps.
Broadcasting:
In G3 fax communication terminology, broadcasting is the transmission of adocument to more than
one address in sequence, not simultaneously.
CclT-r
Consultative Committee for International Telephone and Telegraph. This committee sets interna-
tional standards for communication.
Communication:
Transmission or reception.
Contrast:
The difference in intensity of darkness between the text and the background.
copy:
When used as anoun, this refers to aprintout, either in copy mode or receive mode.
Country Code:
In international dialing, this is the code that directs
wish to send to is located.
Csl:
Called Subscriber Identification. See page 20.
Dial Pulses:
he call to the country where the termina that you
These are dialing signals that your terminal sends out if it uses pulse dialing (see page 19).
Document:
This is the original page or set of pages that you wish to send.
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