Glossary
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ink jet printer
A printer that transfers ink onto the paper by spraying the ink through a number
of small nozzles.
interface
A piece of hardware, a method, or a standard used for connection between or
among computer devices.
laser printer
A printer that uses a laser and the electrophotographic method to print a full page
at a time. The laser is used to “paint” a charged drum with light, to which toner
is applied and then transferred onto paper.
line sequence
A type of color scanning that separates primary colors line by line. The carriage
makes only one pass.
marquee
A moveable and adjustable frame that marks the area of an image that will be
previewed or scanned.
monochrome
Black and white images, or images represented only by the intensity of
luminosity.
OCR
Optical Character Recognition. The technology that allows computers to “read”
text from physical objects. OCR requires a graphical representation of text to
interpret, which usually comes from a scanned image.
page sequence
The type of color scanning in which the entire image is scanned once for each
separate color.
pixel
Short for picture element. Each image is composed of a number of pixels. Pixels
are also counted in units of dots.
plain bi-level
Bi-level image data without the halftoning process.
port
An interface channel through which data is transmitted between devices.
primary colors
Basic colors. See
additive primary colors
and
subtractive primary colors.
resolution
Indication of how finely an image is resolved into pixels. Measured in dots per
inch (dpi), pixels per inch (ppi), or samples per inch (spi).
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