
CHAPTER 2
TERMS USED IN THIS MANUAL
This chapter describes the terms used in this manual.
Dot | A character or graphic image is composed of picture elements called dots. |
| A dot corresponds to one of the thermal head heat elements. |
Dot line | A line of dots arranged perpendicular to the paper feed direction. A dot |
| line corresponds to a line of thermal head heat elements. |
| One dot line consists of 384 dots in |
Character spacing | The space separating contiguous characters on one character line. |
Line spacing | The space separating character lines. |
Input buffer | The memory for temporarily storing the data (characters and commands) |
| received from the host device. Data is executed when fetched from the |
| input buffer. The capacity of the input buffer is 4,096 bytes. |
Line buffer | The memory for storing one line of character data fetched from the input |
| buffer. When the line buffer is filled with character data (i.e. printing of an |
| entire line) or the printing conditions are made valid through a command, |
| the data in the input buffer is printed. |
| The system configuration is shown in Figure |
Input buffer
Host device
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