Glossary - Epson LQ-670 User Manual

Glossary

ASCII
Am erican Stand ard Cod e for Inform ation Interchange. A stand ard ized
cod ing system for assigning num erical cod es to letters and sym bols.
auto line feed
When this featu re is selected in the default-setting m od e or the EPSON
Rem ote! utility, each carriage-return (CR) code is autom atically follow ed
by a line-feed (LF) cod e.
bidirectional printing
Printing in w hich the print head prints in both directions (bid irectionally).
This increases the p rint speed but m ay reduce precise vertical alignm ent.
Bid irectional p rinting is this printer's standard printing m od e. See also
unidirectional printing.
buffer
The p ortion of the p rinter's m em ory u sed to store d ata before it is p rinted .
character table
A collection of letters, num bers, and sym bols that constitute the set of
characters u sed in a particular language.
characters per inch (cpi)
A m easu rem ent of the size of text characters.
condensed printing
Printing in w hich the w id th of each character is approxim ately 60%
of the w idth of stand ard characters. Useful for fitting w id e tables or
spread sheets onto the paper.
continuous paper
Pap er that has sp rocket-feed holes on both sid es, is p erforated betw een
p ages, and is su p p lied in a folded stack. Also called fanfold paper.
control code
A sp ecial cod e u sed to control a printer function such as performing a
carriage return or line feed.
cpi
See characters per inch.
cut-sheet feeder
An op tional, d etachable device that autom atically feeds single sheets of
p ap er into the p rinter.
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