Face-down delivery—Atype of paperdelivery in whichthe paper is
ejectedfromthe printerwiththe printedsidefacing downward.
Face-updelivery—Atypeofpaperdeliveryin whichthepaperis ejected
from the printer with the printed side facing upward.Face-up
delive~ is used for printingenvelopes,transparency fihns and
labels.
Fixingassembly—Theassemblyusedto fix the toneron to thepaper or
othermaterial using heat and pressurein printing process.It is
located insidethe printer and it gets extremely hot during the
operation.
Font—asetof letters,numbers,andsymbolsofthesametypefacedesign.
Fontcartridge—Fontcartridgescontainfontswhichcan supplementthe
availableresidentfonts of the printer to increasethe variety of
typefaces.
Glyph—agraphicsymbolthatconveysinformation.
Handshaking—indatacommunication,theautomaticacknowledgingby
thereceivingdeviceofinformationthathasbeensenttoit,eitherby
signalsandthe interface(“hard”)orby softwarecontrol(“soft”).
Hexdump—conversionbythe printerofASCIIsymbolsinto theirhexa-
decimal(base 16) equivalent.Thisis useful forprogrammersor
otheruserswhowant totroubleshootthecommunicationsbetween
thecomputerand theprinter.
HMI(HorizontalMotionIndex)—refers todot spacingin thesmallest
inc~mentthat canbe madein thehorizontalor xaxis.
Interface—ahardwareplugthatallowscableconnectionsoftwo devices.
For instance,acable fromacomputerparallel portto aprinters
parallelport.
Landscape—printing on paper across its wider dimension, such as a
spreadsheet that is 11in. wide and 8.5 in. high; landscape pictures
are usuallywiderthan theyaretall.
NVRAM—NV(Non-volatile)RandomAccessMemoryisthepermanent
storagebytheStar LaserPrinter4ofsettingsprogrammedfromthe
frontpanel,evenwhenthe poweristurnedoff. Whentheprinteris
turnedon again,thesesettingsbecomethe currentsettings.
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