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| The printer Windows prints to unless another printer is selected. |
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| Printing on both sides of the paper. |
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| A type of printer with photo-lab-quality results that uses transparent dyed film. The film is heated, which causes the dye to vaporize onto glossy paper. |
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| A long-handled brush made of nylon fibers that are charged with static electricity to pick up stray toner inside a printer. |
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| GDI (Graphics Device Interface) |
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| A core Windows component responsible for building graphics data to display or print. A GDI printer relies on Windows to construct a page to print and then receives the constructed page as bitmap data. Also see XPS (XML Paper Specification). |
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| A type of ink dispersion printer that uses cartridges of ink. The ink is heated to a boiling point and then ejected onto the paper through tiny nozzles. |
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| A type of printer that uses a laser beam to control how toner is placed on the page and then uses heat to fuse the toner to the page. |
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| A printer connected to a computer by way of a port on the computer. Compare to network printer |
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| A printer that any user on the network can access, through its own network card and connection to the network, through a connection to a standalone print server, or through a connection to a computer as a local printer, which is shared on the network. |
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| PCL (Printer Control Language) |
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| A printer language developed by Hewlett-Packard that communicates to a printer how to print a page. |
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| A printer language developed by Adobe Systems which tells a printer how to print a page. |
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| To turn a device off and back on. |
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| A kit purchased from a printer manufacturer that contains the parts, tools, and instructions needed to perform routine printer maintenance. |
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| Data sent to a printer without any formatting or processing. |
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| REt (Resolution Enhancement technology) |
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The term used by Hewlett-Packard to describe the way a
laser printer varies the size of the dots used to create an image. This technology partly accounts for the sharp, clear image created by a laser printer. |
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| A type of printer that uses sticks or blocks of solid ink. The ink is melted and then jetted onto the paper as the paper passes by on a drum. |
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| Placing print jobs in a print queue so that an application can be released from the printing process before printing is completed. Spooling is an acronym for simultaneous peripheral operations online. |
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| A type of line printer that uses waxbased ink, which is heated by heat pins that melt the ink onto paper. |
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| A Vista feature that creates a file with a .xps file extension. The file is similar to a .pdf file and can be viewed, edited, printed, faxed, emailed, or posted on Web sites. |
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| XPS (XML Paper Specification) |
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A standard introduced with Windows Vista and designed to ultimately replace GDI as the method Windows
uses to render a printed page before sending it to the printer. |
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