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Chapter 10 Appendix
Direct
SMTP
Allows Internet Fax machines to communicate directly with each other within the Firewall (Intranet) without
going through the Mail Server, thus alleviating the burden on the Mail Server.
Disk Drive A peripheral storage device that holds, spins, reads and writes magnetic or optical disks. It may be a
receptacle for disk cartridges, disk packs or floppy disks, or it may contain non-removable disk platters like
most hard disks.
Domain
Name
A unique name that identifies an Internet site.
Domain Names always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots.
The part on the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is the most general.
dpi Abbreviation of dots per inch, which indicates the resolution of images. The more dots per inch, the higher
the resolution. A common resolution for laser printers is 600 dots per inch. This means 600 dots across and
600 dots down, so there are 360,000 dots per square inch.
Drum Along with the laser, this is one of the basic components of a laser printer. A light-sensitive drum on which
the image is generated by the laser beam as the pattern of an electric charge. The toner particles adhere to
this pattern after the drum has brushed against the developing roller. (a.k.a. OPC Drum)
DTMF
(Dual Tone
Multi
Frequency)
Dialing method that sends a different set of frequencies for each digit of the telephone keypad. Commonly
refers to touch tone dialing.
ECM (Error
Correction
Mode)
The ability to correct transmission errors as detected during the transmitting.
Email
Address
The address for sending and receiving data by Email. It consists of User name, Sub-domain name and
Domain name.
Ethernet A very common method of networking computers and equipment in a LAN.
A local-area network (LAN) architecture was developed by Xerox Corporation in cooperation with DEC and
Intel in 1976.
Fax Board In a multi-functional device, this is a Fax capability built onto a printed circuit board which can send and
receive facsimiles. The multi-functional device is normally able to scan in a document and transmit it over a
phone line to another fax machine. Also, it can receive faxes from other machines and print them out.
Fax
Forward
The ability to forward all incoming faxes to the registered stations.
Fax
Parameter
List
The list that contains the home fax parameters settings that you have programmed into your machine.
File A task that has been stored into the memory of your unit. Examples are deferred transactions.
Fixed
Reduction
The method that allows you to determine one reduction rate, such as 75%, for all incoming documents.
FTP Short for File Transfer Protocol, the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet.
FTP works in the same way as HTTP for transferring Web pages from a server to a user's browser and
SMTP for transferring electronic mail across the Internet in that, like these technologies, FTP uses the
Internet's TCP/IP protocols to enable data transfer.
FTP is most commonly used to download a file from a server using the Internet or to upload a file to a
server (e.g., uploading a Web page file to a server).
Function
Keys
The key that will be utilized to begin an operation or configuration of a feature.
G3 (Group
3)
Refers to the standards and transmission capabilities of the current generation of facsimile machines.
Term Meaning