Subject: comp.periphs.printers - FAQ - Part 11 of 11
Version: 3.09
Last-Modified: 1997/01/05
Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked
         Questions (and their answers) about printers and
         should be read by anyone wishing to post to the
         comp.periphs.printers newsgroup.
Posting-Frequency: monthly
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 05:30:34 GMT
Archive-Name: comp-periphs-printers-faq

Subject: 11 Glossary

Thanks to Arthur Muller <muller@fwi.uva.nl>
for 99 and 44/100s of this part.

AFP             Advanced Function Printing (IBM)
ANSI            American National Standards Institute
ASCII           American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BBS             Bulletin Board System
CaPSL           Canon Printing System Language (See LIPS)
CMYK            Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
cpi             Characters Per Inch (?)
cps             Characters Per Second
CR              Carriage Return
CRT             Cathode Ray Tube
CTS             Clear To Send
DCD             Data Carrier Detect
DCE             Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DIN             Deutsche Industrie Norm
dpi             Dots Per Inch
DSR             Data Set Ready
DTE             Data Terminating Equipment
EBCDIC          Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EOF             End Of File
EOL             End Of Line
ESC/P           Epson Standard Code for Printers
ESC/P2          Epson Standard Code for Printers, Level 2
FF              Form Feed
FIFO            First-In First-Out
FILO            First-In Last-Out (same as LIFO)
FTP             File Transfer Program
GNU             Gnu's Not UNIX
GOCA            Graphic Object Content Architecture
GPL             GNU General Public License
HP              Hewlett Packard
I/O             Input / Output
IEEE            Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IOCA            Image Object Content Architecture
IPDS            Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IBM)
ISO             International Standards Organization
LAN             Local Area Network
LED             Light Emitting Diode
LF              Line Feed
LIPS            Laser-beam Image Processing System (See CaPSL)
lpi             Lines Per Inch
LQ              Letter Quality
MB/Mb           Mega Bytes/bits
MO:DCA          Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (IBM)
PCL             HP printer language
PJL             Printer Job Language (Hewlett Packard)
ppm             Pages Per Minute
pps             pages per second
PTOCA           Print Text Object Content Architecture
RENO            standard emulation for Agfa printers
RGB             Red-Green-Blue
SAA             System Application Architecture (IBM)
SCSI            Small Computer Systems Interface
SPOOL           Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line
TCP/IP          Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TI              Texas Instruments
UART            Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

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Subject: 12 Credits

    The information in this FAQ came from postings to
    comp.periphs.printers, information which vendors and readers
    of comp.periphs.printers have been kind enough to send me, and
    information I had on hand. Any errors are, of course, my own
    fault. If you see something wrong, please let me know and
    I'll correct it as soon as possible. Remember, as with most
    things involving the Internet, your own mileage may vary.

    Special mention must be made of the contributions made by
    Johannes Schmidt-Fischer <jsf@ifconnection.de> who's
    actually written HUGE amounts of this. Thanks Johannes.

    Additionally, I must recognize the help of Arthur Muller
    <muller@fwi.uva.nl> who's been able to provide contact
    and world wide web information on lots of vendors I
    didn't have. Thanks Arthur.

    Several of the BBS numbers in Subject 10 came from the Technical
    Support BBS'S Commercial and Shareware document produced by
    <gary.barr@digicom.com>. Call Digicom BBS at 812 479-1310
    for the latest version of his list, which includes lots of
    additional hardware/software support bbs.

    Some formatting ideas for this were taken from the CDROMLAN-
    FAQ maintained by Greg Gibbs <angjg@orion.alaska.edu> and
    from "FAQs: A Suggested Minimal Digest Format" by Chris
    Lewis clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca.

|   And, as always, thanks Marlowe. :)

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