Glossary
Some of the following words appear in this guide. They are defined as follows:
- banding
- The horizontal lines that sometimes appear when printing.
- buffer
- The portion of the printer's memory used to store data before printing it.
- 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.
- driver
- A software program that sends instructions to a computer peripheral, such as a printer,
to tell it what to do. For example, your printer driver accepts print data from the WebTV
console and sends instructions to the printer on how to print this data.
- font
- A style of type designated by a family name.
- initialization
- Returns the printer to its defaults (fixed set of conditions). This happens every time
you turn on the printer or reset the printer.
- ink cartridge
- Contains the ink your printer uses when printing.
- ink jet
- A method of printing in which each letter or symbol is formed by precisely spraying ink
onto paper.
- interface cable
- The cable that connects the WebTV Console and the printer.
- media
- Materials upon which data is printed, such as envelopes, plain paper, special paper, and
transparencies.
- memory
- The part of the printer's electronic system that is used to store information (data).
Some information is fixed and is used to control how the printer operates. Information
that is sent to the printer from the WebTV Console is stored in memory temporarily.
- nozzle
- Fine tubes in the print head through which ink is sprayed on the page. Print quality may
decline if the print head nozzles are clogged.
- operation check
- A method for checking the operation of the printer. When you perform a printer operation
check, the printer prints the ROM version, code page, ink counter code, and a nozzle check
pattern.
- printable area
- The area of a page on which the printer can print. It is smaller than the physical size
of the page due to margins.
- printer driver
- A software program that sends commands for using the features of a particular printer.
Often shortened to "driver".
- reset
- To return a printer to its defaults by turning the printer off and then back on.
- resolution
- The number of dots per inch used to represent an image.
- ROM
- Read Only Memory. A portion of memory that can only be read and cannot be used for data
storage. ROM retains its contents when you turn off the printer.
- RGB
- Red, green, and blue. These colors, in phosphors irradiated by the television's electron
gun, are used to create the additive array of screen colors.
- subtractive colors
- Colors produced by pigments that absorb some colors of light and reflect others. See
also CMYK.
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