Glossary
interface | Hardware that provides physical connection and electronic |
| communication between two hardware devices. |
Internet Protocol | Refers to an address of any host that uses TCP/IP network |
(IP) address | protocol. |
IOT | The Image Output Terminal, also known as the print engine. |
IPDS | Intelligent Printer Data Stream. |
IPS | IPDS Printing System. |
job | Print data and attributes required for processing and printing a |
| document. |
Job Messages | Page printed at the end of a print job that includes information |
sheet | about the job or error messages if any errors occurred. The |
| format of the Job Messages sheet can be configured by the user. |
Job Pool Manager | Printer Controller task which provides intelligent management |
(JPM) | and processing of unprinted jobs from the time they are received |
| at the Printer Controller to the time they are printed. |
job size | Size of the print master data file measured in bytes. |
landscape page | Orientation of print lines or top of an illustration parallel to the |
orientation | long edge of the paper. |
language | Defined set of characters and symbols combined together by |
| specific rules. |
laser printing | Technology that uses a laser to transfer character forms to a |
| page by direct or indirect means. |
latent image | Static charge present on the photoconductor before contact with |
| dry ink particles. |
leading | 1. Pronounced ledding. |
| 2. Vertical distance between lines (also called line space), |
| measured from a baseline of one line to the baseline of the |
| next. |
| 3. Extra spacing between lines of type. |
| 4. In typography, spacing between lines and paragraphs. |
legal size | Sheet the standard size of legal briefs, 8.5 by 14 inches / 216 by |
| 352 mm. |
letter size | Paper sized 8.5 by 11 inches / 216 by 279 mm. |
library | In data storage, a collection of related files or programs. |
light emitting | Solid substance that glows when a current is passed through it. |
diode (LED) | Often used for indicator lights on disk drives or modems, as well |
| as for displays on other electronic equipment. |
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