GLOSSARY

duplex

printing

Printing on both sides (front and back) of a page. See also

 

 

 

simplex printing.

easy

values

Font point sizes, orientations, and names explicitly defined in

 

 

 

Font Interchange Standard (FIS).

EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. Coded

 

 

 

character set consisting of 8-bit coded characters. It can

 

 

 

accommodate 256 characters.

edgemarking

Use of graphic objects, usually lines or boxes, that bleed off the

 

 

 

edge of the physical page. See also physical page.

electronic publishing

Integrated production of documents on demand, using digitally

 

 

 

stored documents, computerized composition, and electronic

 

 

 

printing systems.

 

 

elite

Smallest size standard typewriter type: 12 characters per

 

 

 

horizontal inch.

embedded

blanks

Blank spaces within a command line.

Ethernet

Xerox local area network (LAN) that allows data to be transmitted

 

 

 

by cable from one device to another, enabling it to share the

 

 

 

network.

 

 

FCB

forms control buffer. Buffer for controlling the vertical format of

 

 

 

printed output.

 

 

FDL

forms description language. LPS-resident source language used

 

 

 

for designing electronic forms. See also FSL; form.

 

 

FIS

Font Interchange Standard. Standard that defines the digital

 

 

 

representation of fonts and character metrics for the generation

 

 

 

of an entire series of Interpress fonts.

Feeder/Stacker

Input paper tray/output paper stacker.

fixed

font

Font containing characters with fixed spacing. See also

 

 

 

proportional font.

fixed

pitch

Font set in which every character cell has the same width. In

 

 

 

reference to character sets, this term describes typefaces in

 

 

 

which all character cells are of equal width. Monospaced as

 

 

 

opposed to proportional spaced.

fixed

spacing

Arrangement of characters on a line so that all characters occupy

 

 

 

the same amount of horizontal space.

 

 

font

Set of images, usually characters and symbols, having common

 

 

 

characteristics such as style, width, height, and weight.

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