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Glossary
banding
The horizontal lines that sometimes appear when printing
graphics. See also MicroWeave.
buffer
The portion of the printer’s memory used to store data before
printing it.
character table
A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols that provides
you with the characters used in a particular language.
characters per inch
(cpi)
A measure of the size of text characters, sometimes referred
to as pitch.
CMYK
Cyan (blue-green), magenta, yellow, and black. These
colored inks are used to create the subtractive system array of
printed colors.
default
A value or setting that takes effect when the equipment is
turned on, reset, or initialized.
dithering
A halftoning method in which dots are arranged in an orderly
pattern. Dithering works best for printing images with solid
colors, such as charts and graphs. See also halftoning.
dpi
Dots per inch. The dpi measures the resolution. See also
resolution.
driver
A software program that sends instructions to a computer
device to tell it what to do. For example, your printer driver
accepts print data from your word processing application and
sends instructions to the printer on how to print this data.
Error Diffusion
This halftoning setting smooths out edges by randomly
placing dots of varying colors. This has the opposite effect of
the Finest Detail setting.