Samsung 5400 manual Effective printing width. The widest image that can be

Digital. Using the binary system—i. e., either 0 or 1—to describe everything, so that 0 means off and 1 means on. Digital fax machines convert the graphic image of your document into a series of zeros and ones by using the binary system of transmission to encode black and white occurrences. This increases transmission speed by passing over white spaces. See also White-line skip.

Dual Access. Allows you to load and prepare to transmit (send) a document while your fax machine is receiving or sending another fax from memory.

Effective printing width. The widest image that can be

printed on a fax.

Effective scan width. The maximum width the scanner in a fax can scan during transmission.

Fax (or fax). A form of communication involving the scanning and decoding of a document into electrical signals and transmitting of the document, over telephone lines to another device which then reconstructs the signals to produce an exact duplicate of the document. Also, a machine that performs such communication.

Fallback. Group 3 fax machines operate at the highest transmission speed possible on a given telephone line. Your fax machine features automatic fallback; if line quality drops during transmission, the fax machine will reduce speed to the fastest possible level.

Fine resolution. 203H x 196V lpi. Also shown as G3F (“Group 3 fine”) on some fax units.

Firmware. (1) A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power and include ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. Firmware becomes “hard software” when holding program code.

(2)Software kept in semi-permanent memory. Firmware is used in conjunction with hardware and software. It also shares the characteristics of both. Firmware is usually stored on PROMS (Programmable Read Only Memory) or EPROMs (Electrical PROMS). Firmware contains software which is so constantly called upon by a computer or phone system that it is “burned” into a chip, thereby becoming firmware. The computer program is written into the PROM electrically at higher than usual voltage,

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