Dell B1260DN Laptop User Manual


 
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Glossary
Glossary
The following glossary helps you get familiar with the product by
understanding the terminologies commonly used with printing as well as
mentioned in this user’s guide.
802.11
802.11 is a set of standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) communication,
developed by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee (IEEE 802).
802.11b/g/n
802.11b/g/n can share same hardware and use the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11b supports
bandwidth up to 11 Mbps, 802.11n supports bandwidth up to 150 Mbps. 802.11b/g/
n devices may occasionally suffer interference from microwave ovens, cordless
telephones, and Bluetooth devices.
Access point
Access Point or Wireless Access Point (AP or WAP) is a device that connects wireless
communication devices together on wireless local area networks (WLAN), and acts
as a central transmitter and receiver of WLAN radio signals.
ADF
An Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) is a scanning unit that will automatically feed
an original sheet of paper so that the machine can scan some amount of the paper
at once.
AppleTalk
AppleTalk is a proprietary suite of protocols developed by Apple, Inc for computer
networking. It was included in the original Macintosh (1984) and is now deprecated
by Apple in favor of TCP/IP networking.
BIT Depth
A computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color
of a single pixel in a bitmapped image. Higher color depth gives a broader range of
distinct colors. As the number of bits increases, the number of possible colors
becomes impractically large for a color map. 1-bit color is commonly called as
monochrome or black and white.
BMP
A bitmapped graphics format used internally by the Microsoft Windows graphics
subsystem (GDI), and used commonly as a simple graphics file format on that
platform.