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Glossary
banding The horizontal lines that sometimes appear when printing
graphics. See also MicroWeave.
buffer The portion of the printer’s memory used to store data before
printing it.
character table A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols that provides you
with the characters used in a particular language.
characters per inch (cpi) A measure of the size of text characters, sometimes referred to as
pitch.
CMYK Cyan (blue-green), magenta, yellow, and black. These colored
inks are used to create the subtractive system array of printed
colors.
ColorSync Macintosh software that is designed to help you get WYSIWIG
(what you see is what you get) output. This software prints
colors as you see them on your screen.
default A value or setting that takes effect when the equipment is
turned on, reset, or initialized.
dithering A halftoning method in which dots are arranged in an orderly
pattern. Dithering works best for printing images with solid
colors, such as charts and graphs. See also halftoning.
dpi Dots per inch. The dpi measures the resolution. See also
resolution.
driver A software program that sends instructions to a computer
device to tell it what to do. For example, your printer driver
accepts print data from your word processing application and
sends instructions to the printer on how to print this data.
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