Xerox FreeFlow manual

Glossary

output 1. Material produced by a peripheral device of a computer, such as a printout or a magnetic tape. 2. Result of completed operations.

overprinting Printing more than one character at the same position.

overprint ratio Maximum number of variable data and form characters that may be intersected by a single scan line.

page 1. In computer programming, a block of instruction, data, or both that can be located in main or auxiliary storage. 2. In word processing, a defined section of a document.

page orientation Direction in which data is printed on a report. See also landscape page orientation; portrait page orientation.

parameter Part of a command other than the keyword.

pass-through job On systems with XPAF, a job that is sent directly from a host to a Xerox printer using XPAF, without undergoing XPAF processing. See also XPAF.

patch In programming, to modify a portion of the program at the machine language level, as opposed to modifying at the source program level.

PCC printer carriage control

PDL print description language. Language used to describe printing jobs to an LPS. PDL describes the input (type, format, characteristics), performs the processing functions (logical processing), and describes the output (type, format, font selection, accounting options).

pitch 1. Horizontal character spacing; 10-pitch (10 characters per inch) spacing is called pica, and 12-pitch (12 characters per inch) spacing is called elite. 2. The number of page images placed on the xerographic belt during one revolution.

pixel Acronym for picture element. Smallest addressable point of a bit- mapped screen that can be independently assigned color and intensity. Pixels are definable locations on a display used to form images. For graphic displays, more pixels generally provide higher resolution. Spots, dots, and pixels are used interchangeably.

point Unit of measurement equal to 0.0139 inch. Points are always used to express type size and leading. There are 12 points to a pica and about 72 points to every inch. See also pica.

portrait page Orientation of print lines or the top of an illustration parallel to the orientation short edge of the paper if the sheet is within the standard size

range. Sheets larger than standard have the reverse print orientation.

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