Fixing assembly — The assembly used to fix the toner on to the paper or other material using heat and pressure in printing process. It is located inside the printer and it gets extremely hot during the operation.
Font — a set of letters, numbers, and symbols of the same typeface design.
Font cartridge — Font cartridges contain fonts which can supplement the ‘available resident fonts of the printer to increase the variety of typefaces.
Handshaking — in data communication, the automatic acknowledging by the receiving device of information that has been sent to it, either by signals and the interface (“hard”) or by software control (“soft”).
Hex dump — conversion by the printer of ASCII symbols into their
hexadecimal (base 16) equivalent. This is useful for programmers or
other users who want to troubleshoot the communications between the computer and the printer.
HMI (Horizontal Motion Index) — refers to dot spacing in the smallest increment that can be made in the horizontal or x axis.
Interface — a hardware plug that allows cable connections of two devices. For instance, a cable from a computer parallel port to a printers parallel port.
Landscape — printing on paper across its wider dimension, such as a spreadsheet that is 11 in. wide and 8.5 in. high: landscape pictures are usually wider than they are tall.
NV RAM —
Parallel — a communications interface that sends or receives 8 bits of information plus control signals at a time.
Parity — a bit in a serial information that allows a computer and printer to automatically check for errors in transmission.
Pitch — the width of a typeface measured in characters per inch.
Point — the height of a type font, measured in points, or 1/72 of an inch
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