12 terms found.
1. A4 - A standard international paper size - 210 x 297 mm or 8.3 x 11.7 inches.
2. Additive Colors - Colors which, when added together, comprise white, ie., Red, Green, and Blue are referred to as additive colors.
3. Adjustable Tray - A paper tray in a printer that is adaptable to hold carrying sizes of paper. Most current printers use adjustable trays.
4. Alignment - The relative position of text and images in relation to the page margins. Common alignments are Left, Right and Centered, all self explanatory, and Justified meaning text kerning is adjusted automatically to produce straight edges on both the left and right margins. Left and Right are also sometimes called Left justified and Right justified.
5. Alphanumeric - Technically a set of characters that contains letters and numbers. Practically this can also contain punctuation marks.
6. Apple Talk - The standard communication protocol used by Apple Macintosh.
7. Archival - The ability to withstand the natural aging effects of time. With printer material, this is the ability for images to retain color. The archival factor is greatly increased with the use of stable inks and high quality paper.
8. Ascender - The section of lowercase letters, eg., b, d, h, that extends above the x-height of the other lowercase letters.
9. ASCII - Acronym for "American Standard Code For Information Interchange". This is a standard for assigning numerical codes to characters and control codes.
Specificcaly, an 8-bit code is used with seven-bits representing characters, letters, numbers, punctuation and symbols, with the eighth bit used for parity checks.
10. Attribute - One of the many ways of describing color, in this case by their hue, saturation and brightness.
11. AutoFont Support - A standard of Hewlett-Packard for supplying font width information for both scalable typefaces and bitmap fonts.
12. Automatic Sheet Feeder - ASF - A system for feeding single sheets into the printer as needed automatically as distinct from dot matrix printers that use a continuous roll of paper while.
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