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| American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) | Used to define text characters |
| Calibration | Process of matching the print output of a printer to the visual output of flash memory |
| Centronics connector | connector used with older printers |
| DB-25 connector | DB connector (female), commonly referred to as a parallel port connector. |
| Dot-matrix printer | Printer that creates each character from any array of dots |
| Dots per inch (DPI) | Measure of printer resolutions that counts the dots the device can produce per linear (horizontal)inch. |
| Dye-sublimation printer | printer that uses a roll of heat-sensitive plastic film embedded with dyes. |
| Erase lamp | component inside laser printers that use light to make the coating of the photosenitive drum conductive. |
| Fuser assembly | Mechanism in laser printers that uses two rollers to fuse toner to paper during the print process |
| Graphical Device Interface (GDI) | component of Windows that utilizes the CPU rather than the printer to process a printer job as a bitmapped image of each page. |
| IEEE 1284 standard | IEEE standard governing parallel communication |
| impact printer | uses pins and inked ribbons to print text images |
| ink cartridge | Small container of ink for inkjet printers |
| inkjet printer | Use liquid ink that is sprayed through a series of tiny jet to print text or images on a piece of paper. |
| laser | Single- wavelengthed, inphase light source that is sometimes strapped to the head of sharks by bad guys. |
| laser printer | Elctro-photographic printer in which a laser is used as the light source |
| maintenance kit | commonly replaced printer components provided by many manufactures |
| material safety data sheet (MSDS) | Standardized form that provides detailed information about potential environmental hazards and proper disposal methods assoiciated with various PC components. |
| near-letter quality (NLQ) | Designation for dot-matrix printers that use 24-pin printheads. |
| Network printer | Printer that connects directly to the network |
| pages per minute (ppm) | speed of the printer |
| parallel port | connection for synchronous, high speed slow of data along parallel lines to a device |
| photosensitive drum | Aluminum cylinder coated with particles of photosensitive compounds/ |
| PostScript | Language defined by Adobe Systems Inc. for describing how to create an image on a screen |
| Primary corona | Wire located near the photosensitive drum in a laser printer, that is charged with extremely high voltages to form an eletric field |
| print resolution | Quality of a printer image |
| print spooler | area of memory that queues up print jobs that the printer can handle. |
| Printer Control Language (PCL) | Printer Control Language created by Hewlett-Packard and used on a broad cross-section of printers |
| printhead | Case that holds the printwires in a dot-matrix printer |
| printwires | Grid of tiny pins in a dot-matrix printer that stike an inked printer ribbon to produce images on paper. |
| raster image | Pattern of dots representing what the final product should look like. |
| raster image processor (RIP) | Component in a printer that translate the raster images into commands for the printer |
| resolution enhancement technology (RET) | Technology that uses small dots to smooth out jagged edges that are typical of printers without RET, producing a higher quality print job |
| Solid ink printer | Printer that uses solid sticks of non-toxic ink. |
| static charge eliminator | Device used to remove a static charge |
| thermal printer | Printers that use heated printheads to create high quality images on special or plain paper |
| toner | A fine powder made up of plastic particles bonded to iron particles |
| toner cartridge | Object used to store the toner on a laster printer |
| transfer corona | Thin wire that applies a positive charge to the paper during the laser printing process |
| XML paper specification (XPS) print path | improved printing subsystem included in Windows Vista. |
