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About this manual
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Spool
—Write to a disk. Used in this manual to refer to a PostScript print job being
saved to the Fiery S300 hard disk in preparation for processing and printing.
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RIP
—Acronym for raster image processing, which changes PostScript commands
into descriptions of each mark on a page. In common use as a noun, a “raster image
processor” (RIP) is the computer processor that performs this function.
The Fiery S300 RIP changes text and graphics commands in PostScript into
specifications for each dot of toner deposited on a page by the copier.
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Process
—The term “process” is used interchangeably with the term “RIP” in this
manual to refer to raster image processing.
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—The task of rendering, or imaging, a page or job on a print device.
These concepts explain how the Fiery S300 and the copier work together as a powerful
printing system.