Xerox 701P21091 manual

Glossary

leading 1. Vertical distance between lines (also called line space), measured from a baseline of one line to the baseline of the next.

2.Extra spacing between lines of type. 3. In typography, spacing between lines and paragraphs.

LED light emitting diode. Solid substance that glows when a current is passed through it. Often used for indicator lights on disk drives or modems, as well as for displays on other electronic equipment.

LEF long-edge feed. The movement of paper through the printer in the direction of the paper length (the longer side of a sheet of paper).

legal size Sheet the standard size of legal briefs, 8.5 by 14 inches. LF long-edge feed

letter size Paper sized 8.5 by 11 inches/216 by 279 mm. library In data storage, a collection of related files or programs.

line tables Internal data structures providing a record in memory of lines to be drawn on a page.

literal Alphanumeric beginning with a letter, optionally including an asterisk, period, colon, or slash, and not enclosed in single quotes.

log Collection of messages or message segments placed on an auxiliary storage device for accounting or data collection purposes.

logical page In the Xerox printing systems environment, a formatted page that is smaller than the physical page. A logical page is defined by an origin, thus allowing more than one logical page to be placed on a physical page.

lpi lines per inch

LPS Laser Printing System

mask 1. Selection of bits from a storage unit by using an instruction that eliminates the other bits in the unit. 2. In accessing files, a file name mask is used to reference one or more files with similar file-id (identifier) syntax. 3. In Interpress, a mask serves as a template, indicating the shape and position of an object on a page.

MB megabyte. Unit of one million bytes.

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