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media Materials upon which data is printed, such as envelopes, plain
paper, special paper, and transparencies.
MicroWeave Printing technology that produces images in fine increments to
reduce the possibility of banding. See also banding.
monochrome This means printing with only one color of ink, which is
generally black ink.
parallel interface See interface.
print queue Print jobs that are sent to the printer while it is busy are stored
in a waiting line, or print queue, until they can be printed.
print server The computer connected to the printer. It receives the jobs and
then distributes them to the assigned printer. It also holds extra
print jobs while the printer is busy. See also print queue.
printable area The area of a page on which the printer can print. It is smaller
than the physical size of the page due to margins.
printer driver See driver.
proportional printing Printing in which the width of the character varies from
character to character. For example, a capital W receives much
more space than a lowercase i. The result looks more like a
typeset book than a typewritten draft.
reset To return a printer to its defaults either by sending a command,
an
INIT signal or by turning the printer off and then back on.
resolution The number of dots per inch used to represent an image.
RGB Red, green, and blue. These colors, in phosphors irradiated by
the computer monitor’s electron gun, are used to create the
additive array of screen colors.
scalable fonts Fonts that can be enlarged or reduced. Non-scalable fonts are
called bitmap fonts and can’t change in size.
screen pattern This feature prints shaded areas as they appear on screen,
instead of printing them as halftones.
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